From: Tristan <9p-st@imu.li>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:48:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <257c42.73550a3a.iYYk.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABwHSOs=yVF96NKMSUJ-RPpmARw3v1ku_Gn7QBS5Kq-nLtz+sw@mail.gmail.com>
> Suffice it to say that without a critical mass of users, Bell Labs
> and/or Alcatel-Lucent will drop it, it will experience insufficient
> support from the user base at large, and it will suffer bit-rot until
> it won't boot anywhere anymore.
plan 9 is sane enough that one person can maintain it for their own use.
given the state of other systems that probably doesn't appear possible.
that's probably the most important idea that i've taken from plan 9.
software can be sane.
and then there's chuck moore.
tristan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-15 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-15 17:05 Blake McBride
2013-12-15 17:18 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 17:51 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 18:00 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 18:43 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 20:30 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 19:18 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-15 19:28 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 19:31 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-15 20:03 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 20:17 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 21:17 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 21:23 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-16 0:30 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 21:25 ` Lee Fallat
2013-12-15 22:17 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 22:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-15 22:30 ` Matthew Veety
2013-12-15 22:48 ` Tristan [this message]
2013-12-15 23:28 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-17 0:29 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-12-17 4:09 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-18 9:47 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-18 20:51 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-19 22:36 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-19 22:53 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-19 23:15 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 0:29 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 0:37 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 0:56 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 1:44 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-20 1:53 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-23 23:11 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-23 23:44 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-24 0:29 ` David Arnold
2013-12-24 1:03 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-24 3:13 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-24 3:30 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-24 3:36 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-24 3:45 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 18:59 ` Oleg
2013-12-15 19:13 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 20:19 ` Oleg
2013-12-15 20:43 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 20:55 ` Oleg
2013-12-15 20:59 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 20:47 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-16 21:26 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2013-12-16 21:47 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-16 21:55 ` Anthony Sorace
2013-12-16 22:08 ` Kurt H Maier
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2013-10-24 7:57 Keith
2013-12-15 18:43 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-16 4:54 ` David Arnold
2013-12-16 19:51 ` tyrrell t
2013-12-16 20:59 ` Charles Forsyth
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