[plug] reinstall for new core hardware?

[Bernard Blackham]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:19:48PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Yeah.  I like Python, but I can foresee problems in using it in this
> particular case.  Like, say, not working if /usr is a seperate
> partition... or an NFS mount.  Not to mention being rather fragile -
> shell scripts can normally survive having minor syntax errors; Python
> won't even attempt to run.
> 
> But, as you say, it'd certainly be a learning experience ;-)

It's been done for Perl:

http://www.thinkingsecure.com/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_2/tpj0502-0009.html

Essentially they've replaced /lib/libc.6.so with /lib/perl, and the
entire userland operating system consists of perl scripts. They
didn't get as far as text-based webbrowsers or anything gui like,
but it was a fun ride ;)

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>