Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Al Viro wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:16:19PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005, Marc Perkel yowled:
>>> If you want to start thinking about DOING IT RIGHT you need to think
>>> beyond the Unix model and start looking at Netware. Maybe in 5 years
>>> Linux will evolve to where Netware was in 1990.
>
> Ugly as hell and thankfully about to go extinct outside of dark places
> where its malignant presense still lingers amidst the Shoggoth droppings?
>
>> I think Plan 9 is a better goal than Netware. At least it was designed
>> by people aiming for a better Unix rather than people trying to build a
>> better DOS, and so is more likely to have a compatible philosophy.
>
> s/aiming.*/with taste that doesn't belong in R'Lyeh/
>

Excuse me but wasn't Netware the DOS server that started as
a corrupted BSD Unix system, purposely obfuscated to prevent
prying eyes from discovering that it was an unauthorized Unix
variant?

Or was it really a variant of the defunct Xerox XNS that claimed
that they created SPX/IPX?


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13 on an i686 machine (5589.55 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.

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