[9fans] Re: Anyone still running plan9?

[Michel Oosterhof kirth@cal044204.student.utwente.nl]

cwr@cts.COM (Will Rose) writes:

>Michel Oosterhof (kirth@cal044204.student.utwente.NL) wrote:
>: Hello, to whoever might read this.  Is anyone still running plan9?
>: Further more, is someone still working on the UNIX ports of several
>: plan9 utilities? (the rc shell, the 9wm (8 1/2) window manager, etc?

>Me.  And I don't think I've seen a post in this group for the last
>3-4 months - I assumed the distribution was screwed.

>I think there's an rc port in the Linux distribution, but I don't
>know about the other stuff.

There's an rc port for linux yes. Well, it just run on linux. didn't
need a port. I'm currently using it as a shell, but there are still
a few bugs. pressing ctrl-c twice while compiling something with gcc
logs me out. The 'w' or 'who' command only shows '-rc' and not the
current program you're running, etc. But rc still is a very useful \
shell, it's small, and runs extremely fast.

9wm is a clone of 8 1/2, and runs on linux too, I'm using it at the
moment. (1.2pre version). There's also 9term, an `xterm' window that
resembles the plan9 windows. Further more, 'sam' exists for unix, and
wily, a copy of acme.

michel
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