From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Creighton Message-Id: <200106111610.SAA18053@boris.cd.chalmers.se> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, prosotto@plan9.bell-labs.com Cc: lac@cd.chalmers.se Subject: [9fans] unfair? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:10:57 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b482e516-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Huh? What are you unhappy about? I think that it is perfectly splendid that you don't have to race to the hardware store every year or so like the rest of us poor slobs because the software bloat is such we need more hardware constantly to be able to continue to do what we did yesterday before the libraries got so much bigger. I am trying to popularise plan 9 in part because I want to be able to not spend all my money on hardware as well. And, God knows, the people who think that all software has to be made by 1127 and not by other parties such as themselves need a kick. If not being able to run plan 9 doesn't do it for them, I have no idea what will ... I think it is a marvellous plan. But I am having serious problems here in Sweden finding hardware to run a new file server on. My hardware dealer, who loves me because I buy so much stuff from him to run linux on, just phoned. I could not get him to believe that I wanted older hardware than the stuff he was going to give me FOR FREE. Anders and I need to go to the used computer store to get something we can run. Maybe hardware is just so much easier to come by in the USA that you didn't notice that it is not so freely available other places. This is not your fault. Don't you know me well enough by now to know that I am not blaming you? When we get our new fileserver up, which will have to wait until after the European Union, which is having a major meeting in my town this week, goes home, I will fix this problem by doing a vmware port if I can get it to work unless somebody has already done it by then. In the mean time ... well 10 years is an exageration. I'm sorry for that. AND THE BITSY PORT IS WAY COOL. Forgiven? Laura