From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:02:04 -0500 From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Plan9ish virtual consoles, etc. (was Re: [9fans] First-timer help) In-Reply-To: <20050730112540.5de8ae86@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050730112540.5de8ae86@localhost.localdomain> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7176b642-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/30/05, Martin C. Atkins wrote: >=20 > Following our recent discussions about various ways of sharing the > display amongst logins, I thought Jim Getty's talk at OLS was > interesting. >=20 > 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! >=20 > 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. >=20 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