From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leonardo To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 in Brazil Message-Id: <15987219330.b686Dfb.13471@composer.9fans.topicbox.com> References:

In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 13:25:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="15987219331.E1dD69d89.13471" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Policy-Reasoning: allow: sender is a member Topicbox-Message-UUID: a4e79fe0-ea1c-11ea-9688-404c1e2d11b0 --15987219331.E1dD69d89.13471 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 13:25:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cool! I want to make a Plan 9 distro aimed at brazilians: I'm at the beginning of= this journey. My plan is to translate all the documentation (articles and = man pages), try to make the system more user friendly (not for hackers but = for common people) and also work in ordinary software like a modern browser= , a word processor, spreadsheet software, a kind of powerpoint etc. I am studying Plan 9 and I am totally in love with it: read files, write to= files and again: read files, write to files. And what else do you need to = do? Little or nothing: things are really simple. The NSA invented SELinux (= mandatory access control) because it saw that, from a security point of vie= w, the idea of discretionary access control did not provide much. Okay, it'= s an idea and it works. But Plan 9, before, had introduced the idea of name= space which is, by the way, a much simpler and smarter idea: each process c= an have its own restricted view of the universe of files. I really don't un= derstand why Plan 9 has not been adopted. Legacy base?= --15987219331.E1dD69d89.13471 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 13:25:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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I want t= o make a Plan 9 distro aimed at brazilians: I'm at the beginning of this jo= urney. My plan is to translate all the documentation (articles and man page= s), try to make the system more user friendly (not for hackers but for comm= on people) and also work in ordinary software like a modern browser, a word= processor, spreadsheet software, a kind of powerpoint etc.

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I am studying Plan 9 and I am totally in love with it: r= ead files, write to files and again: read files, write to files. And what e= lse do you need to do? Little or nothing: things are really simple. The NSA= invented SELinux (mandatory access control) because it saw that, from a se= curity point of view, the idea of discretionary access control did not prov= ide much. Okay, it's an idea and it works. But Plan 9, before, had introduc= ed the idea of namespace which is, by the way, a much simpler and smarter i= dea: each process can have its own restricted view of the universe of files= . I really don't understand why Plan 9 has not been adopted. Legacy base?

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