From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NhOTg-0003M9-Hb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FCAAE0785; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95F3E0785 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:32:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7AAC72.9010107@kutulu.org> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:32:18 -0500 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: "J. Roeleveld" Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <201002151057.34557.joost@antarean.org> <4B799E95.2010700@metux.de> <201002160923.49451.joost@antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <201002160923.49451.joost@antarean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2010 14:32:19.0245 (UTC) FILETIME=[D80D7DD0:01CAAF14] X-Archives-Salt: dcfc4ec3-6f64-4822-9c2f-dd1b06ae5f8a X-Archives-Hash: 1643918983cb29220b2a61b6a936a01c On 2/16/2010 3:23 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Netbook: 1GB of ram, with Linux, I can easily run all the software I want , > without need of any swap. > Can I do the same with 9P? Eg. will I be able to run all the software I use on > my netbook without having to spent time on porting it all? > Is also all the hardware supported in 9P? Linux supports all the hardware in > my netbook. > > Unless the answer to this is a 100% yes, 9P is never going to be an option. Just for reference, 9p is not Plan 9, it's only the Plan 9 network protocol/distributed file system, which you can use on Linux with the appropriate file system modules. --Mike