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Subject: Re: [9front] hackathon writeup
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Quoth Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com>:
> Throwing an idea out because I've never seen anyone
> else say it: the best possible linuxemu is Linux itself,
> running as User-Mode Linux, which ought to be possible
> with Linux syscall emulation (again, the code is in NIX),
> except not really because there's no ptrace and UML is
> centred around that.

Fuck that noise. It's easier to do hardware emulation than
linux syscall emulation. And it's more generally useful.