Re: [dev] Suckless OS (was About escape sequences and stuff)

2012-02-12 Thread Jacob Todd
I've yet to see a functioning microkernel smaller than the plan 9 kernel. On Feb 12, 2012 8:34 AM, "Pierre Chapuis" wrote: > On 2012-02-11 22:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > All the real fun seems to happen in L4 >> > > And Minix3. Microkernels will win, eventually... > > -- > Pierre Chapuis >

Re: [dev] Suckless OS (was About escape sequences and stuff)

2012-02-12 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On 2012-02-11 22:35, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: All the real fun seems to happen in L4 And Minix3. Microkernels will win, eventually... -- Pierre Chapuis

Re: [dev] Suckless OS (was About escape sequences and stuff)

2012-02-11 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:32:16 -, Jonathan Slark wrote: Has the suckless community considered starting an operating system from scratch? Linux/BSD etc suck by default as they are evolutions of software from the 1970s and have all the legacy baggage that comes with that. Even Plan 9 da

Re: [dev] Suckless OS (was About escape sequences and stuff)

2012-02-11 Thread hiro
most systems from scratch suck

Re: [dev] Suckless OS (was About escape sequences and stuff)

2012-02-11 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Jonathan Slark wrote: > Has the suckless community considered starting an operating system from > scratch? > > Linux/BSD etc suck by default as they are evolutions of software from the > 1970s and have all the legacy baggage that comes with that.  Even Plan 9 > dat

Re: [dev] Suckless OS (was About escape sequences and stuff)

2012-02-11 Thread Jacob Todd
Plan 9 is still being developed and is in use by business and universities, unlike react os and haiku. Just because it was started in the 80s doesn't automatically make it bad.