Re: gnome

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jimen Ching wrote:
> 
> Just a short comment on the above qoute though; not all modern Unix
> variants support networking and physical disks (no hard disks).
>

All the ones that would benefit from Gnome do, probably. But even so - if
they are remotely Posix or X/Open or otherwise close to standard Unix,
Gnome can probably be made to work with a few relatively minor changes.
 
> the old method as well.  So in my professional opinion, it is wiser to
> stick with the old method for now, until the new kernel philosophies are
> better understood.  Putting a kernel API in a library is just bad design,
> when applied to monolithic kernel.
>

It may be "bad" in some academic sense, but it works, and the same can not
be said for your solution.
 
> Also, where are all the fears coming from?  It won't work on this system,
> it won't work on that system. 

This is not what we want. We want it to work on all these systems, and
within a reasonable timeframe. You may not want that. But your conclusion
does not follow, given our goals.

Havoc