Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

honestly, i think that linux is the better place, if what you want
is something to view ajax google mashup stuff.  i don't find it strange
at all that the server can't display it's own data.  hard drives can't
initialiate ata commands, after all.

it's not too suprising that no 9 fan has written a javascript-compatable
browser.  i'd hope they be smart enough to always find something better
to do. ;-)

you know in 1992 or so when i first started using linux (couldn't get my
hands on a plan 9 license), it wasn't very functional.  but it was
tractable.  you could get stuff done.

now linux is pretty functional, i guess, but it is very difficult environment to
program in, and what works is very likely broken in the next release
because somebody thought there were too many bytes in struct work_struct
on 64-bit machines.

so suppose we have javascript and all that jazz working on plan 9,
would all that goo have vitiated the reason we were drawn to plan 9 in the 
first place?

- erik

On Sun Dec 10 15:58:35 EST 2006, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> Put it this way. I have a nice web page served out of a Plan 9 system
> that shows google maps data etc. I can't view it on Plan 9. What we
> have here, is failure to communicate. Drivers won't help this problem.
> 
> So what we're trying to do is give people a path from the linux world
> to a better place. The idea is that you'll get a linux kernel as a
> device driver. [...]