From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220801251908i300b03e9x51ab17d261870d36@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:08:06 -0500 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080125174945.0D6295B30@mail.bitblocks.com> <62f86a4eb6c8ecd765a5edf37055cbce@proxima.alt.za> <7d3530220801251029l67a510faq1e41ee0c707e443e@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 39bf088c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 1/25/08, 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