From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <547DE9F1.3080208@ReliableID.com> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:33:53 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <547C0A85.9090906@gr13.net> <873a3482d7cbc73496b64baa73c718a5@proxima.alt.za> <20141201103810.GA541@polynum.com> <547D3967.2020200@gr13.net> <20141202154044.GA29342@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20141202154044.GA29342@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL Topicbox-Message-UUID: 321dd530-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/02/2014 10:40 AM, plannine@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:08:04PM -0800, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 20:46:08 +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult w= rote: >>> So, how would a Plan9 solution for these usecases look like ? >>> >>> In fact, I intend to rewrite network-manager to some 9p-based solutio= n, >>> so I'd like to discuss this carefully before starting to lennert up >>> something stupid. >> has it occured to you to try the system out as is? nobody else has >> asked for it to be more unix like in the same way. perhaps there's >> good reason for it to be the way it is. > To be fair, he's not talking about using Plan 9, just leveraging someth= ing > factotum-like under Linux. I think he should be commended for spreadin= g > the 9love in the face of rampant Lennartism, quixotic though it may be. Lennartism is about breaking with orthodoxy. This is entirely in keeping=20 with it. --=20 Wes Kussmaul The Authenticity Institute =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calli= ng themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the same as if a per= son named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 - The Serpent