udev reorders assignment [was Re: Solved Debian update - keyboard responsive, Lennart Sorrenson not so much]

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 10:52:05PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> The socket stuff is a lot of warts on the side of UNIX.  Very useful
>> warts, I admit.
>
> Yeah out of all the devices, networking does seem to be the only one
> that doesn't use the 'everything is a file' concept.

Graphics, too.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/draw

> Have you seen BSD on a cell phone?  How about a 100000 CPU supercomputer
> cluster?  a 2048 cpu single system image monster?  Linux runs all of
> those, so I do think Linux won at this point in time.

iPhones are BSD underneath, so that case isn't quite so obvious.  Yes,
proprietary, but it's still BSD...
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