From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 References: <7f68bb19aa8d8ecb13d5f53c96524b1a@centurytel.net> <2621.199.98.16.93.1066410500.squirrel@wish> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed From: Brantley Coile MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2621.199.98.16.93.1066410500.squirrel@wish> User-Agent: Opera7.11/Win32 M2 build 2887 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:45 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7130f296-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In the early 1980's, you folks in the labs trashed the VAX kernel and replaced it with 4.1a (or c or something). You poked around in the kernel, trowing away some stuff, adding new stuff like streams and netb and stuff. On top you ran very clean stuff. This was done because you saw that for that hardware the BSD kernel was more useful. Can we do that with Linux and the plan9 stuff? Can we replace X windows altogether with a libdraw interface? Can the binding that Linux currently does me bent into shape? Can we have a Linux kernel base system that doesn't have commands with so many options that each command has built in man pages in the form of --help? Can we have a real Unix system and not a GNU one? Just a thought. Brantley