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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:24:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071110192411.C93835B50@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:58:26 PST." <3e1162e60711101058h4364e066t879bb3e927d8459a@mail.gmail.com>

> > If you don't have venti you're missing one of the most important bits of Plan 9.
> >
> 
> I've been meaning to set up one with Plan 9 Ports.  I bet it's a
> better Time Machine than Time Machine is :-)
> 
> Might be "fun" to get a GUI wrapped around it.

I suspect a lot of eyecandy would be easier to implement on
plan9.  I have been thinking about openGL on plan9.  Has
anyone looked at adding openGL to Plan9?

> Now that Plan 9 Port is working on Leopard (Thanks Russ and everyone
> who worked on that!  That was great turnaround time!) all I need/want
> to do is get another external hard drive before I begin tinkering.

I migrated one FreeBSD machine to zfs and so now venti
happens to be running on top of zfs.  Probably bit of
an overkill...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-10 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-10  2:13 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10  2:49 ` geoff
2007-11-10  3:00   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10  4:50     ` ron minnich
2007-11-10  4:55       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10 13:04         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-10 17:31         ` ron minnich
2007-11-10 18:58           ` David Leimbach
2007-11-10 19:00             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10 23:48               ` David Leimbach
2007-11-12  3:19                 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-10 19:24             ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2007-11-10 19:46               ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-10 21:20                 ` john
2007-11-10 23:28               ` Paul Lalonde
2007-11-11  0:27                 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-11  1:12                   ` Paul Lalonde
2007-11-11  1:12                 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-11  5:34                   ` Paul Lalonde
2007-11-12 20:32                 ` 3d graphics (was " Bakul Shah

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