On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:27 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@coraid.com> wrote:
> you say
>
>> I think, Google did not choose Plan 9 due lack of device drivers, poor
>> IPv6 support and confusing redundant fragment of code lurking around in
>> /sys/boot or 9load, but a compared with Linux a compact, clean and
>> much more efficient FreeBSD could definitely have been a better choice.
>
> but then
>
>> But that's [linux] still a huge hog and spaghetti code; needs a lot of
>> cleanup,
>> which I don't think is going to happen in the near future.
>
> i think you're going to have to pick a lane.
I think his lane is that Linux is complex, bloated, poorly designed,
etc and that FreeBSD would have been a better choice. I have to agree
with that....
> and having fought with both the linux and plan 9 boot process,
> i can assure you that the plan 9 boot process is simplier and more
> straightfoward. /sys/boot is trivial compared to a linux initrd.
And how!
- Dan C.
