> My 2 cents worth -
>
> JavaOS should be ported natively to whatever processor is of interest; you
> shouldn't have an OS on top of a VM on top of a VM. Besides, for the client-
> side applications that Java was intended for, it can stand alone; Linux is
> not an end in itself, especially for those apps, and having a shell on top
> of Java is not that useful. Linux's strength is being on the server side
> of the network of Java clients, or running a combination of fast native code
> and slow Java clients.
I wouldn't even mention this if Alan Cox weren't such a supporter of
Linux-8086 because of "hack value." But you've got to admit that there's
some very very miraculous hack value to running Linux in a Java VM under
Linux. :)
Greg Alexander
http://www.cia-g.com/~sietch/
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a
tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes
in the house.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"