From: Jack Norton <jack@0x6a.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] freedom (was Re: Compiling 9atom kernel)
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 11:29:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC421ED.50208@0x6a.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105060907.07574.errno@cox.net>
errno wrote:
> So, what to do?
>
> The Web:
>
> Reject it? (aka "go buy a tablet" )
>
> Reproduce it? (aka "have you looked at webfs?" )
>
> Reuse it? (aka "port webkit")
>
>
> There's no possible way that I'm the only one who has envisioned
> some rendition of the following science-fiction:
>
> * a Plan 9-based platform targeted at the general consumer market
>
> ... * Stuff * ....
> I don't want google and facebook and flicker et. al. owning my data; I
> don't want to make intel and dell rich with their overpowered machines
> and processors so I can run ever-bloating os and software; I don't want to
> maintain a collection of various ad-hoc essentially autistic (please excuse
> the term) computers in my household. I want to be able to access my
> private, personal computing environment from anywhere with an internet
> connection via my portable thin client. I want to be able to easily share
> my data and resources within a trusted circle. I want all communications
> to innately and transparently run over an ssl encrypted channel at all
> times.
>
> A radically distributed internet where power and control is put back into
> the hands of individuals. I'm tired of centralized gilded cages and
> hierarchical client server models formed and shaped mostly for the benefit
> of a few monolithic companies and an ever-encroaching federal government,
> and the ever-insidious "Intellectual Property" gestapo.
>
> From where I stand, this is where Plan 9 belongs. This is what it ought to be
> doing, and where it ought to be going.
>
> I hope I have not offended anyone, please do not be too harsh on me if
> you disagree.
>
>
>
>
You've got some misplaced idealism. Plan 9 isn't needed for any of
this. In fact you could probably leverage some existing
frameworks/api's and whatnot on a linux machine to do this in a matter
of days for cheaper (hours even?). All you'd need is a dash of
pragmatism.
Remember your comment on how Acme/rio et al don't really interest you
but 9p/per-process ns et al did? You can kinda do that in linux. If
you want to create a product on that scale yourself, linux, for all its
faults, will get you a time-to-market that isn't a pipe dream. You just
have to leverage many unsightly 'technologies'.
Plan 9 to me is a playground to have something clean and unencumbered by
the world. There is a certain zen to saying "well I don't really think
that is necessary" and to forgo a "hop on the bandwagon" or "me too!"
existence.
In the end though, the list will eventually say it: start hammering out
some code and we'll see what you come up with. Proof in the pudding.
Good luck,
Jack
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Thread overview: 160+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 18:08 [9fans] spaces in filenames smiley
2011-04-26 18:42 ` Rob Pike
2011-04-26 18:44 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-26 18:52 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-26 19:31 ` Rob Pike
2011-04-26 19:35 ` Paul Lalonde
2011-04-27 13:10 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-04-27 13:16 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 13:21 ` Steve Simon
2011-04-28 9:58 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-04-28 12:11 ` [9fans] spaces in filenames (and filesystems...) Digby Tarvin
2011-04-28 12:35 ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...)) dexen deVries
2011-04-28 13:42 ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and Richard Miller
2011-04-28 14:00 ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...)) Digby Tarvin
2011-04-28 14:13 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-28 15:35 ` [9fans] portable filesystem smiley
2011-04-28 15:38 ` [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...)) Digby Tarvin
2011-04-28 14:18 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-29 13:30 ` [9fans] spaces in filenames (and filesystems...) Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-29 14:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 15:06 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-29 15:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 19:17 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-30 1:09 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-30 2:50 ` smiley
2011-04-30 2:55 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-26 18:43 ` [9fans] spaces in filenames erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 2:30 ` smiley
2011-04-27 2:39 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 15:10 ` [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: " smiley
2011-04-28 15:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 16:16 ` smiley
2011-04-28 16:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 17:23 ` smiley
2011-04-28 17:35 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-28 18:20 ` ron minnich
2011-04-28 18:50 ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-04-28 19:19 ` Jeff Sickel
2011-04-28 19:29 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-28 19:39 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 2:00 ` errno
2011-04-29 3:03 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 6:11 ` errno
2011-04-29 6:34 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-29 9:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-04-29 9:12 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-29 9:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-04-29 9:44 ` tlaronde
2011-04-29 9:54 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-29 13:56 ` Jeff Sickel
2011-05-05 9:54 ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-08 18:27 ` tlaronde
2011-05-08 20:51 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-05-09 16:54 ` tlaronde
2011-05-09 17:10 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-10 8:34 ` hiro
2011-05-10 12:27 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-05-13 8:40 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-05-13 10:14 ` hiro
2011-05-13 13:30 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-10 13:47 ` Daniel Lyons
2011-05-12 18:40 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-10 17:56 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-05-12 22:22 ` hiro
2011-05-10 21:47 ` John Floren
2011-05-08 21:34 ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-09 4:53 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-29 3:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-29 5:27 ` ron minnich
2011-04-29 9:04 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-04-29 10:19 ` errno
2011-04-29 12:21 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-30 4:05 ` errno
2011-04-30 4:22 ` errno
2011-04-30 6:26 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-04-30 8:16 ` errno
2011-04-30 8:25 ` Steve Simon
2011-04-30 9:48 ` errno
2011-05-05 9:55 ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-30 12:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-30 22:21 ` smiley
2011-04-30 23:20 ` errno
2011-04-30 23:33 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-01 0:12 ` errno
2011-05-01 0:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-01 23:56 ` blstuart
2011-05-02 0:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02 1:42 ` errno
2011-05-02 1:44 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02 2:29 ` errno
2011-05-02 2:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02 3:11 ` errno
2011-05-02 3:15 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-02 4:09 ` errno
2011-05-02 3:39 ` ron minnich
2011-05-02 4:05 ` Steve Simon
2011-05-02 10:38 ` Salman Aljammaz
2011-05-02 11:46 ` errno
2011-05-02 16:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-05-02 16:48 ` dexen deVries
2011-05-02 11:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-05-02 13:54 ` Jack Norton
2011-05-02 14:45 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-02 16:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-05-05 12:33 ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-05 12:48 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-06 4:23 ` Lucio De Re
2011-05-06 4:35 ` ron minnich
2011-05-06 6:45 ` errno
2011-05-06 7:08 ` ron minnich
2011-05-06 7:35 ` errno
2011-05-06 15:45 ` Bakul Shah
2011-05-06 15:59 ` John Floren
2011-05-06 16:47 ` Bakul Shah
2011-05-06 16:11 ` tlaronde
2011-05-06 12:07 ` Lucio De Re
2011-05-06 16:07 ` [9fans] freedom (was Re: Compiling 9atom kernel) errno
2011-05-06 16:29 ` Jack Norton [this message]
2011-05-06 17:38 ` errno
2011-05-07 0:06 ` errno
2011-05-07 5:01 ` Lucio De Re
2011-05-07 7:36 ` Daniel Lyons
2011-05-16 15:02 ` Steve Simon
2011-05-06 7:08 ` [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames errno
2011-05-06 7:11 ` ron minnich
2011-05-06 12:59 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-06 16:06 ` errno
2011-05-06 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-06 22:32 ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-06 22:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-05-06 23:18 ` errno
2011-05-06 23:49 ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-06 23:47 ` errno
2011-05-06 23:56 ` Comeau At9Fans
2011-05-07 0:22 ` errno
2011-05-07 0:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-07 0:43 ` errno
2011-05-06 13:15 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-30 22:34 ` smiley
2011-04-30 22:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-05-01 6:54 ` dexen deVries
2011-05-05 12:33 ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-05 12:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-05-05 20:30 ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-05-05 21:22 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-05-06 5:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-06 7:02 ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-05-06 7:06 ` errno
2011-05-05 9:55 ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-04 11:40 ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-29 12:32 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 18:39 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-04-29 6:06 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-28 20:50 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-04 11:40 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-05-04 11:56 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 18:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-29 4:31 ` smiley
2011-04-29 4:35 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-28 19:27 ` Charles Forsyth
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