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: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 18:29:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.0.0-rc4-l38+; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107021829.26860.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f91c2676-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Saturday 02 July 2011 18:15:17 Robert Seaton wrote: > (...) > Some of the things I have discovered so far: > * Sending things via plumber > (...) you've made me realize i've been using plumber-like stuff before. back on KDE 3.5, there was that `dcop' thingie that i've employed for plumbing actions and selected text. it worked, it made my day every day back then. dcop had both ease of use and natural introspection. pity dcop is dead now, and dbus can't even deliver the eulogy :-( disclaimer: i'm not a plan 9 person for any viable value of `p9 person' -- 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