Re: Linux and Plan-9ness

From: studdugie
Date: Mon Jul 04 2005 - 12:19:35 EST


If you dropped the "Unixness" you would have to rename. Maybe Linine,
or Linsoft, or ....

Think of all the chaos that would cause. You don't want chaos do you?
I mean really, do u want to force all the
\w*(?ilinux)\w*(\.(com|org|net))? sites and publications to rename
too? Unconscionable!

On 6/30/05, Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Markus Törnqvist wrote: {
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:56:36PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> >instead of trying to get a monstrosity (albeit a very cool one,
> >conceptually) into the kernel. Sure, it could be made to work, but not
> >without dropping our Unixness. And if we do, we should start by
> >looking at Plan 9 =)
>
> What's wrong with "dropping our Unixness" if it means taking an extra step
> toward Plan 9?
>
> Why is this a bad idea?
> }
>
> Please explain!
>
>
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