From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <98c0883597934b1e6f7edea9190916ea@brasstown.quanstro.net> References: <98c0883597934b1e6f7edea9190916ea@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:50:21 -0500 Message-ID: <509071940911260650i1eb6438cu1181e6e8a6262783@mail.gmail.com> From: Anthony Sorace To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Scanners Topicbox-Message-UUID: a23fb350-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.