From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:39:40 +0000 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix? In-Reply-To: <47396E4D.6020005@kix.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47396E4D.6020005@kix.in> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f6cc5138-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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?