From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/18
Date: 2000-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3884B021.239D0BC0@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2000Jan14.120633.1@eisner
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <m3hfgg4w1w.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> writes:
>
> /* snip */
> If you provide Linux compatibility you are bound by the legacy Unix
> behavior, defeating the purpose of a "new" operating system.
>
> Certainly providing useful programs on existing operating systems is
> better.
Providing useful programs on existing OS's is desireable, but different folk are interested in
different things.
Also, what limits does providing Linux compatibility impose? One could, if one desired, restrict
the compatibility to running in a subshell of the OS rather as MSDos runs within Win95 (but
possibly with better isolation). I suppose that this might result in an OS that was larger than
otherwise needed, but then most of the requirements of Linux would need to be met by any other OS
also, so it might not add that much.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-12 0:00 Project: FreeOS Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-18 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Mario Klebsch
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-20 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-01-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson [this message]
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
[not found] ` <vhi3drwe773.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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