From: Gregg Siegfried grs@claircom.com
Subject: comp.os.plan9
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 16:38:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950401213800.vfHi3mYYnjH3_-gm3wXw5uNvOrBR9nDDhnGQnuk-VGg@z> (raw)
>
> What's about a shareware binary-only or stripped-down distribution?
>
> I think one of the reasons for the famous success of Linux was that you
> could get it on nearly EVERY ftp server in the world. It is important
> to give people the chance to try plan9 before they decide to buy it.
Well, not presuming to speak for "the Plan 9 Guys \(rg", I don't expect
that plan 9 is being targeted as a competitor to Linux, of all things.
However, I recall from the winter usenix bof that an ftpable binary release
was mentioned as a possibility.
Gregg Siegfried
grs@claircom.com
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1995-04-01 21:38 Gregg [this message]
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1995-08-28 16:30 comp.os.plan9 Steven
1995-08-28 13:45 comp.os.plan9 Scott
1995-08-28 9:33 comp.os.plan9 Kiran
1995-08-28 9:19 comp.os.plan9 forsyth
1995-08-28 8:27 comp.os.plan9 dhog
1995-08-01 17:27 comp.os.plan9 Jim
1995-04-04 7:30 comp.os.plan9 Hans-Peter
1995-04-03 0:58 comp.os.plan9 Christopher.Vance
1995-04-02 0:29 comp.os.plan9 Scott
1995-04-01 20:48 comp.os.plan9 Geoff
1995-04-01 11:36 comp.os.plan9 Harald
1995-04-01 11:28 comp.os.plan9 Martin
1995-04-01 3:59 comp.os.plan9 rob
1995-04-01 1:15 comp.os.plan9 rob
1995-04-01 1:08 comp.os.plan9 Bill
1995-03-31 22:56 comp.os.plan9 Jim
1995-03-31 14:14 comp.os.plan9 Dirk
1995-03-30 18:32 comp.os.plan9 Geoff
1994-02-07 0:21 comp.os.plan9 Scott
1994-02-06 19:46 comp.os.plan9 Vijay
1994-02-06 17:15 comp.os.plan9 geoff
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