[ncolug] Re: Minix3
- From: larry <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:01:57 -0500
Henry Keultjes wrote:
As all of you know, I am *not* a hacker and I have used loadable
device drivers, possible with a micro-kernel architecture like Minix3,
for fifteen years. So *as a user* I am used to having a very small
core system and being able to customize it for my own needs.
This is a very significant statement. I think it really says a lot about
what you are spending this huge effort to look for. I do understand, and
I know (better than most) exactly what you are referring to, since this
"environment" (I am not willing to call it an OS) was a product of my
former employer of 18 years, and I spent many months training on it (but
no time actually working with it, which was the case with many
technologies at that dysfunctional company.)
All modern OS's have loadable device drivers.
I think what you are trying to say is the following:
"I want an operating environment, where I can play around with stuff
like I/O, security, and screen formatting, just by editing some text files."
"Furthermore, I would like to be able to make various hardware, no
matter how old, work in this environment, again simply by editing some
text files."
"Finally, I would like to customize the applications that run in this
environment, by (you guessed it) editing some text files.
Does that sum it up, Henry?
--
Did you ever hear the story of the consultant who is called in to fix an
important machine in the factory. He walks around the machine 3 times
scratching his head and suddenly stops. Then he asks for a hammer. He whacks
the machine real hard and it starts to work again. Everybody is happy. The
plant manager asks the consultant for a bill and he says $10,001.00. The plant
manager says I dont have a problem with the $10,000.00, but what is the $1.00
for? The consultant replies the $1.00 is for whacking and $10,000.00 is for
knowing where to whack it.
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