Re: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 7/20/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> erik quanstrom wrote:
> > powerful, distributed namespace?  you mean like, uh, dns.
> >
> > dns can emulate everything that ndb provides except two-level
> > binding.
>
>
> this mess is kind of our fault though. If we'd get off our collective
> ass(es) and write stuff for osnews ... otherwise, the wikipedia effect
> applies.

I agree.  I just think that the value of these OSNews things is
overrated.  People are going to buy into what a clearly very new
person to Plan 9 has to say about it with almost no question.

How is a person supposed to separate the grain from the chaff when
web-journalism and blogs are at the quality they are?

>
> I've just (re)learned the hard way: successful research is about 99% PR,
> 1% real work. And, there are very, very successful and well-known
> researchers in this world who manage to make it 100% PR.

Yeah, V9FS needs some PR too, and advocacy I guess to get things into
other OSes.

>
> ron
> p.s. curmudgeon  A T lanl.gov gets to me to. You can guess why.
>

Yeah that's ok, apparently I'm an arrogant asshole :-).  I can live
with that...  As long as I can occasionally still be useful.

Dave