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Glendix
Glendix is a Plan9/Linux distribution.
It combines Plan9 user space with the Linux kernel. This paper (PDF) contains more
information. "We believe Plan 9 has a lot to offer in terms of
features and functionality to the end-user. However, while the Plan 9
kernel is an excellent example of kernel design, it lacks in terms of
device drivers. Plan 9 does not run on several commodity hardware, thereby
severely reducing its adoption rate. Most people run Plan 9 in virtual
machines, not on actual hardware. Linux, on the other hand has had years of
work by thousands of developers put into it. It runs on significantly
larger amounts of hardware than the Plan 9 kernel."
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Glendix Posted Dec 4, 2008 4:21 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
This is brilliant! I assume the name comes from "Glen or Glenda?".
I found it interesting that maintaining binary compatibility with real Plan 9 was less work than making the build scripts use ELF tools.
Glendix Posted Dec 4, 2008 12:18 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]
Maybe it's from Scotland. You know, "The valley of Dix". ;)
Glendix Posted Dec 10, 2008 4:06 UTC (Wed) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526) [Link] It is possible people should just read the paper (which does explain the name), but for those who don't, the name is from Glenda and Tux. Also interesting is how they got plan 9 programs to run under linux (various options have been tried, but they ended up making Linux able to run plan 9 binaries, including implementing plan 9 system calls and such. Despite significant missing pieces, a number of plan 9 programs now run).
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