On 7/30/05, Martin C. Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Following our recent discussions about various ways of sharing the
> display amongst logins, I thought Jim Getty's talk at OLS was
> interesting.
>
> He goes a lot further than I was suggesting, but I couldn't help but
> think how much easier the things he was proposing would be, if he
> could think outside the "X box" (and no, I don't mean the games
> machine :-), and base the infrastructure on Plan 9!
>
> Perhaps if Plan 9 were shown to trivially do these things (without,
> for example, having to put user identities and SELiniux-like
> facilities into the X server! Yes, really! Yuk!), it would be
> (another) example of Plan 9's superiority.
>
I talked to Jim directly about this. He's very pro-plan 9 and talked
about Rob's influence on the Xrender extensions. He also spoke in
vocal support of unlocking Linux's private namespaces as a key
component of this stuff. I pointed him at the v9fs stuff and also
told him about Plan9ports, which he was pretty excited about --
particularly when he heard venti was now part of it.
-eric
