From: "John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:08:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3530220801251908i300b03e9x51ab17d261870d36@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB650E89-9386-4749-A864-C18B2A23AE77@mac.com>
On 1/25/08, dave.l@mac.com <dave.l@mac.com> wrote:
> > I think the point is that people talk a big talk about how great Plan
> > 9 is,
>
> That's 'cos it is.
>
It is pretty great.
> > but then don't do a damn thing with it.
>
> Uh, sorry?
>
> A month or so ago, I sat in a room with a bunch of
> like- and unlike-minded people and discussed
> everything from linguistics to supercomputing on plan9 and/or inferno.
>
Yeah, I was there too. It was great.
> Lots of people are busy doing various things, damned or otherwise,
> with plan9.
>
I'm currently employed to work on Plan 9 on supercomputers and other
things. When I say some people aren't doing a damn thing, I'm not
referring to everyone. There are some really cool things being done
with Plan 9, but there's also the weekly "Here's an idea for a new
filesystem/program what do you think" that never results in any code.
I'm just saying that there seem to be more than a few 9fans who love
to post and talk on IRC about how great it is, but have yet to do much
more than get a tip9ug account and log in a few times.
> If by "a damn thing" you really mean "a damned thing that some
> particular set of people want",
> or "a damn thing that you want", well, that's a different matter.
>
> > At least, that's how I read it.
>
> Perception is everything.
>
> Another point of view:
> as has been said before:
> plan9 has been failing for 20 years.
> That's longer than most.
>
> DaveL
>
Actually, Windows, MacOS, UNIX, and VMS have all been failing longer
and harder ;)
John
--
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 20:08 [9fans] " Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 20:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-01-20 21:05 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 22:22 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-20 23:41 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 23:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 23:47 ` benavento
2008-01-20 23:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 14:09 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 14:39 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-21 15:01 ` Kernel Panic
2008-01-21 16:02 ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-21 20:54 ` Steve Simon
2008-01-21 21:58 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 22:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 22:59 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-21 23:25 ` Fazlul Shahriar
2008-01-21 23:31 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 0:39 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 12:15 ` Russ Cox
2008-01-22 12:38 ` Harri Haataja
2008-01-22 13:09 ` lucio
2008-01-22 15:03 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 15:37 ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-23 9:35 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2008-01-23 11:15 ` Harri Haataja
2008-01-24 9:41 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-24 10:05 ` Steve Simon
2008-01-24 10:44 ` benavento
2008-01-24 15:05 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 15:14 ` benavento
2008-01-24 15:51 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:12 ` benavento
2008-01-25 9:55 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-24 16:55 ` Uriel
2008-01-24 11:19 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 11:24 ` Christopher Nielsen
2008-01-24 11:48 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 12:46 ` mattmobile
2008-01-24 13:23 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 15:37 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:04 ` ron minnich
2008-01-24 18:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-01-24 18:15 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 18:19 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:38 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 18:44 ` lucio
2008-01-24 19:01 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:50 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-01-24 19:04 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 21:52 ` Russ Cox
2008-01-25 9:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-01-25 12:19 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-01-24 13:38 ` tlaronde
2008-01-23 14:17 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-23 16:13 ` ron minnich
2008-01-23 16:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-23 17:36 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-23 18:26 ` Uriel
2008-01-24 9:59 ` sqweek
2008-01-24 17:21 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 18:21 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 18:37 ` lucio
2008-01-24 22:16 ` Gary Wright
2008-01-25 2:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 3:21 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 6:08 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:52 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 19:09 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 19:27 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 19:38 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 21:26 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-01-25 9:55 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 14:14 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 14:26 ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-25 17:49 ` Bakul Shah
2008-01-25 18:09 ` lucio
2008-01-25 18:29 ` John Floren
2008-01-25 19:12 ` lucio
2008-01-25 19:38 ` Bakul Shah
2008-01-25 20:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-01-26 2:28 ` dave.l
2008-01-26 3:08 ` John Floren [this message]
2008-01-26 3:17 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-28 3:11 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-28 3:34 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-25 18:32 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 18:15 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-25 18:30 ` lucio
2008-01-25 18:17 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-25 18:19 ` John Floren
2008-01-25 14:35 ` [9fans] importing web browsers (was Building GCC) Charles Forsyth
2008-01-25 14:45 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 17:50 ` lucio
2008-01-26 15:47 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-26 15:50 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 16:17 ` [9fans] Re: Building GCC pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 18:04 ` lucio
2008-01-26 15:29 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-24 19:13 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 19:18 ` lucio
2008-01-24 19:26 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-25 9:56 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 11:21 ` lucio
2008-01-25 14:07 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 18:43 ` [9fans] Higher level document rendering and editing (Was: Building GCC) lucio
2008-01-28 10:04 ` [9fans] Re: Higher level document rendering and editing (Was pavlovetsky
2008-01-28 10:36 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-24 18:23 ` [9fans] Re: Building GCC lucio
2008-01-25 10:00 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-22 17:15 ` [9fans] " Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 18:19 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-22 18:28 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 18:37 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-22 13:26 ` John Stalker
2008-01-22 16:35 ` ron minnich
2008-01-22 17:00 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-22 17:07 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:18 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-22 17:25 ` ron minnich
2008-01-22 17:46 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:07 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:15 ` ron minnich
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