Re: Plan9ish virtual consoles, etc. (was Re: [9fans] First-timer help)

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 7/30/05, Martin C. Atkins <martin_ml@parvat.com> wrote:
> 
> Following our recent discussions about various ways of sharing the
> display amongst logins, I thought Jim Getty's talk at OLS was
> interesting.
> 
> He goes a lot further than I was suggesting, but I couldn't help but
> think how much easier the things he was proposing would be, if he
> could think outside the "X box" (and no, I don't mean the games
> machine :-), and base the infrastructure on Plan 9!
> 
> Perhaps if Plan 9 were shown to trivially do these things (without,
> for example, having to put user identities and SELiniux-like
> facilities into the X server! Yes, really! Yuk!), it would be
> (another) example of Plan 9's superiority.
> 

I talked to Jim directly about this.  He's very pro-plan 9 and talked
about Rob's influence on the Xrender extensions.  He also spoke in
vocal support of unlocking Linux's private namespaces as a key
component of this stuff.  I pointed him at the v9fs stuff and also
told him about Plan9ports, which he was pretty excited about --
particularly when he heard venti was now part of it.

      -eric