From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200502281334.j1SDY1T26092@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] some recent updates In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:37:31 -0500." <25c2e6b0238e4103e9e4b0adb04f9706@coraid.com> References: <25c2e6b0238e4103e9e4b0adb04f9706@coraid.com> From: Axel Belinfante MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <26084.1109597641.1@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl.cs.utwente.nl> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:34:01 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1cf00bf0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Just for the record, how many people are still running native systems? at work (plan9.cs.utwente.nl), three old 333Mhz machines for kenfs, auth/kfs/secstore/consolefs, runs venti (venti not much used yet) cpu/web server/tcp trampoline for kenfs/terminal (music, sokoban) and (not used much more) coffee availability monitor (plan 9 incarnation of http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~slurp/). it has a removable disk with fossil for music - more music from various local disks via u9fs. to listen to music I drawterm in from the sun on my desk, I get sound bytes via drawterm to a wrapper program that passes them on to the sun /dev/audio a laptop that occasionally boots plan 9 and takes root either from local kfs or from kenfs (via wavelan, until real-soon-now the current relative open accces is closed, then 802.1X will be the only way to get in :-( ) an ultra1 that has succeded to boot a ramdisk-only version of newsham's work over the net, but, to be useful, needs ``port'' of the 2ed lance ethernet driver to 4ed. at home another laptop, a bitsy, and several pc's that can boot plan 9. one of them I used for a while as home music machine with only a kernel locally, taking root fs and music via cable modem from work (over aan(8)). (still waiting for that very-affordable no-moving-parts low-power-consumption (to have always on), and/or quickly-booting little machine to use as cpu/juke/terminal at home...) Axel.