> erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > when i need to run Linux programs, i run linux.
Yeah, but then you’ve got linux. Now you’ve got two problems (hah! if only…). > what is the benefit of running firefox on a p9 like system, > rather than on linux? The theory, anyway, is that you could then not have a linux (or whatever) system. If the emulation bit could be self- contained enough, a plan9 system with linuxemu would have a significantly lower maintenance burden than a plan9 system plus a linux system. In theory. I’ve never understood why the emulation effort picked linux, though. It seems like the worst possible thing to be emulating, and I don’t imagine the software support for the sort of things we’re talking about (for many, it’s pretty much just a browser) is all that different between Linux and, say, FreeBSD. Are there a bunch of linux-only apps people would like to have?
