From: "roger peppe" <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:39:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df49a7370711130239n49ebe95h38315f3d620b4ef5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47396E4D.6020005@kix.in>
> I am aware that Plan9Port is something very close to the goal, but I
> think we can eliminate all of the GNU and X dependencies and have a pure
> Linux/Plan9 setup. Why Linux? Simply because it supports a wide-range of
> hardware, is one of the most documented free kernels out there, and
> already has the support of many developers.
you could do this, but i think it would end up being quite unsatisfactory,
as you'd surely end up wanting to use aspects of linux other than its drivers.
so you might get more hardware support, but you'd lose all the userspace
code, so would it really end up that much more capable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-13 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-13 9:28 Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 10:05 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-13 10:14 ` Uriel
2007-11-13 10:33 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-13 14:25 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-14 0:51 ` Alexander Sychev
2007-11-13 21:37 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13 10:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 10:39 ` roger peppe [this message]
2007-11-13 10:47 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 12:18 ` Uriel
2007-11-13 13:00 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 13:31 ` Uriel
2007-11-13 13:47 ` roger peppe
2007-11-13 14:10 ` sqweek
2007-11-13 13:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 15:20 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 18:23 ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-13 14:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 16:49 ` Uriel
2007-11-13 17:19 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 17:24 ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 22:01 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 15:16 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 14:29 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 17:21 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 21:41 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13 13:30 ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 15:35 ` Harri Haataja
2007-11-13 16:22 ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 16:43 ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-13 16:39 ` Uriel
2007-11-13 16:46 ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 18:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 18:12 ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 22:04 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 22:16 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 23:19 ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-14 2:23 ` R
2007-11-14 11:44 ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-14 12:17 ` R
2007-11-14 12:40 ` Christian Kellermann
2007-11-14 13:01 ` R
2007-11-14 13:08 ` Christian Kellermann
2007-11-13 17:48 ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 16:26 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-13 16:42 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 17:44 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14 5:44 ` ron minnich
2007-11-16 8:42 ` [9fans] Nine4Linux [WAS: Glendix?] Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-16 10:20 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <1b69251dfdcb6b8022ff78767f07ce86@quanstro.net>
2007-11-22 18:01 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-22 22:00 ` Paweł Lasek
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