From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <140e7ec30807012348x4b20c836y4b3a52a89f51234a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:48:07 +0800 From: sqweek To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <878ce07b71d96e4a7912b1e2159de216@9srv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080630181616.BF1C285E6@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> <878ce07b71d96e4a7912b1e2159de216@9srv.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: d599990c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:27 AM, wrote: > This is a very good point. I mostly learned Unix in a corporate > environment, but the same logic holds: somebody else had set > up and maintained the systems. > > // I'm afraid there's not much we can do about this. > > Other, obviously, than getting uni types to use it there. Plan 9 > (like Inferno) has quite a bit to offer from pedagogical view. Also, public 9grids. Though judging by gdiaz's experiences with sirviente, there's a bit of work to be done in that area - I get the impression things are fairly unstable once the machine gets under memory pressure. -sqweek