Re: [9fans] A few questions, thanks!

["John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On 10/1/06, Kyrre Nygård <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My name is Kyrre Nygård and I'm a student at the
> University of Bergen, Norway, currently doing
> this school research project trying to document
> the next generation of operating systems that is
> starting to emerge across the world. Plan9 is to
> me one of the most interesting projects, however
> I was surprised not to find a group of developers
> on the Freenode or OFTC IRC networks. Luckily I
> found this mailinglist, so I'll just go ahead and ask.
>
>         I'm not sure how important they may be to
> you, but I would be very interested in looking at
> the kernel output (e.g. dmesg in BSD) just to see
> what I might expect. And also, if possible, a
> listing of the Plan9 hierarchy? Preferably using
> this file listing script:
> http://paste.husk.org/6847. Anyway I hope it
> differs from the utterly complex Filesystem
> Hierarchy Standard, which may seem logical to
> brain washed software developers, but to normal people pure madness.
>
>         That's it for now I guess, thank you so much for your time.
>
> All the best,
> Kyrre
>
>

Well, you apparently managed to find Freenode/#plan9 eventually,
because I just talked to you this morning (or to somebody asking the
EXACT same thing). Anyway, if you're in Norway, I suggest getting an
account at http://9grid.de/. The accounts are free and you should be
able to get decent connections from Norway (I hope). You'll get an
account on a fully-configured Plan 9 machine, and you can explore to
your heart's content.


John Floren
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