From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:13:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.0.0-rc4-l38+; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1309194435.17968.YahooMailClassic@web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <869173B1-9ECD-4C9A-B50A-10AB56068A37@corpus-callosum.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106272113.17259.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9) Topicbox-Message-UUID: f749eacc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Monday 27 June 2011 20:18:05 Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > The essence of being a 9fan: It is more important to be right than to > be popular. The essence of being popular on 9fans: being more right than popular elsewhere ;-) On Monday 27 June 2011 19:20:57 ron minnich wrote: > (...stuff...) on linux has gone with (in addition to everything else) a very > plan 9-like "write commands to files" model that uses text. It's worth mentioning the devpts (the /dev/pts/* thingies) too. You can have several instances of devpts, by mounting them at various places (with -o newinstance); the relevant config is CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES -- dexen deVries > (...) I never use more than 800Mb of RAM. I am running Linux, > a browser and a terminal. rjbond3rd in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692529