From: W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Scanners
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:11:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0E9AA9.3080306@conducive.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940911260650i1eb6438cu1181e6e8a6262783@mail.gmail.com>
Anthony Sorace wrote:
> there's a group called Rosetta that came out of another meeting at the GSoC
> mentor's summit for non-linux OS users (good meeting, although not quite as
> amusing as the "Troll Like a Pro" session). the folks at the meeting all thought
> their biggest problem was lack of driver support, and the Rosetta group is an
> effort to define a way to address that.
>
> they kinda started by re-defining UDI without realizing it, but since have. the
> group was dominated by *bsd folks, but we're not the only oddballs involved.
> we'll see if we can get anything useful out of it. hopefully something more
> manageable than UDI.
>
>
Given that the four BSD's don't even grok each other's disklabels or UFS all
that well, I'll not hold my breath while awaiting miracles...
Given FAT(n)'s limitations, it is a tad ironic that one of the more 'universal'
fs (long name, case-sensitive, and UTF-8 capable) with which to share portable
HDD/flash between and among Mac and all of the other *BSD's is ...
ext2...
:-(
.. and perhaps Fossil?
;-)
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<4B0E42E2.80906@conducive.org>
2009-11-26 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 14:35 ` W B Hacker
2009-11-26 14:45 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 14:50 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-11-26 15:11 ` W B Hacker [this message]
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2009-11-26 13:06 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 18:30 ` ron minnich
2009-11-26 20:08 ` matt
2009-11-26 23:22 ` matt
[not found] <<4B0E14CF.3010406@conducive.org>
2009-11-26 5:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 6:43 ` Sam Watkins
2009-11-26 6:51 ` Sam Watkins
2009-11-26 6:54 ` Sam Watkins
2009-11-26 9:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-11-26 13:01 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-26 18:08 ` lucio
2009-11-26 23:41 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-26 8:57 ` W B Hacker
[not found] <<4B0E0A29.5050106@conducive.org>
2009-11-26 5:06 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 5:40 ` W B Hacker
2009-11-26 9:36 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] <<3aaafc130911242005m5cfc0d8bs92094b33757711d9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-25 4:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-25 9:45 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2009-11-25 11:32 ` Andreas Zell
2009-11-25 12:20 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2009-11-25 12:26 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2009-11-25 14:34 ` hiro
2009-11-25 14:28 ` Andreas Zell
2009-11-25 14:33 ` Jorden Mauro
2009-11-25 14:44 ` hiro
2009-11-25 16:45 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2009-11-25 16:43 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2009-11-25 17:03 ` Jack Norton
2009-11-26 0:51 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-11-25 16:53 ` ron minnich
2009-11-25 17:04 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-11-25 17:08 ` John Floren
2009-11-25 19:04 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-12-01 19:52 ` Steve Simon
2009-11-25 17:12 ` hiro
2009-11-25 17:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-25 17:47 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-11-25 17:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 3:48 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-11-26 5:16 ` W B Hacker
2009-11-25 19:18 ` ron minnich
2009-11-25 19:49 ` W B Hacker
2009-11-26 0:07 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-11-26 4:55 ` W B Hacker
2009-11-26 13:03 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-26 22:59 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-25 14:17 ` Jorden Mauro
2009-11-25 4:05 Jorden Mauro
2009-11-26 23:10 ` Enrico Weigelt
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