boyd, rounin wrote: > From: "Christopher Vance" <vance_at_aurema.com> > >>Personally, I think init should be static, and can't think of any way >>it would benefit from shared libraries. > > > plan 9 has everything static. the kernel compiles in about 20 seconds > or less -- no compression -- and you can boot it off a floppy. > > if i can sit in /sys/src and type: > > mk install > > and have everything re-built (and i could do it for all the supported > architectures) in minutes i have eliminated unnecessary complexity. > > if it's not there, it can't break. > > > btw: say hi to maltby for me. plan9 doesn't count. It's so minimalistic, it's useless. It has many beautiful and brilliant ideas. But it's not useful to many people as a production system. It's a shame, really. Richard Coleman richardcoleman_at_mindspring.comReceived on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 17:33:09 UTC
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