From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What operating systems are the google guys using?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:22:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0491002241222r4c888c6bp300dd86a8ace4341@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a1002240035j5b185d30jd21c9b8095fa17b@mail.gmail.com>
What Russ says is true but for me it was simpler. I used Plan 9 as my
local operating system for a year or so after joining Google, but it
was just too inconvenient to live on a machine without a C++ compiler,
without good NFS and SSH support, and especially without a web
browser. I switched to Linux but found it very buggy (the main
problem was most likely a bad graphics board and/or driver, but still)
and my main collaborator (Robert Griesemer) had done the ground work
to get a Mac working as a primary machine inside Google, and Russ had
plan9port up, so I pushed plan9port onto the Mac and have been there
ever since, quite happily. Nowadays Apples are officially supported
so it's become easy, workwise.
I miss a lot of what Plan 9 did for me, but the concerns at work override that.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 20:38 Brantley Coile
2010-02-23 17:12 ` Jacob Todd
2010-02-23 22:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-02-24 1:15 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-24 7:41 ` Philippe Anel
2010-02-24 8:35 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-24 16:06 ` David Leimbach
2010-02-24 20:22 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2010-02-24 23:29 ` Brantley Coile
2010-02-25 12:15 ` Peter A. Cejchan
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