On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:41:29 -0400 > L N <leonardne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The goal should be a Plan 9 "distro" that runs natively on AMD-64, and can >> open a web-browser. > > That "goal" is a target moving at approximately the speed of light. > Specifically, the "open a web browser" part of it is. > > A virtualizer running on Plan 9 would waste far less time than implementing > enough Linux syscalls to run a Linux distro new enough to run any browser > newer than Opera 9.
That's a very interesting point. Implementing lguest on Plan 9 would require something like 13 "system calls". Far easier than doing the near-400 system calls of linux correctly. ron
