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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:51:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f74087fa2f4e2af5218ebe6893be7a5@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a05071909101b216c49@mail.gmail.com>


> Gentoo and FreeBSD ports are both getting to be a little ridiculous.
> I mean, really, why should I have to compile Firefox in order to install
> it on my laptop?  

not that it matters much in the context of 9fans, but one can install
binary packages from compiled ports without much difficulty in
freebsd, just the command is different than 'make'.

i run Fedora on my home computers, the university machines are slowly
being switched to suse just because it's slightly more gui-sh to
administer.  not that it matters much -- nobody really cares about
what's running underneath, as long as it doesn't require reboots every
week.  almost everyone here operates their desktop machines as
glorified xterms (read: xterms that can play music and browse the web)
to the cluster nodes.  

my desktop at ucalgary is a big drawterm to the plan9 server.  the
current incarnation of the drawterm i'm typing this email in was
started on July 7th.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-19 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-19 15:48 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-19 16:01 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:07   ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-19 16:10   ` Russ Cox
2005-07-19 16:23     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:46       ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 16:40     ` Bakul Shah
2005-07-19 16:51     ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2005-07-19 17:14     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-19 20:08       ` David Leimbach
2005-07-19 20:29         ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-20  6:39     ` William K. Josephson
2005-07-19 20:05   ` David Leimbach
2005-07-20  4:40     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-20  5:02       ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-20  8:46       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-20 13:44         ` David Leimbach
2005-07-20  0:57   ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-20  4:47     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21  2:33       ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-21  2:44         ` [9fans] xen Tim Newsham
2005-07-21  3:02         ` [9fans] First-timer help Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21  3:46           ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-21  2:32 ` Tim Newsham
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-21 23:25 Francisco J. Ballesteros
2005-07-21 23:36 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-20 16:38 Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-19 16:33 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-20  4:09 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-18 20:42 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-17 18:27 John Floren
2005-07-17 18:26 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-07-17 19:18   ` John Floren
2005-07-17 19:20     ` Russ Cox
2005-07-17 23:12       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-18  9:23         ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-18 10:45           ` lucio
2005-07-18 18:24             ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-19  6:01             ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 13:29               ` Axel Belinfante
2005-07-19 13:57               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:11                 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 15:38               ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-19 16:12                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-07-19 16:39                 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-21  2:30                 ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-20  1:43               ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-18 13:08           ` Steve Simon
2005-07-21  2:17             ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-21  4:34               ` arisawa
2005-07-21  2:11         ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-21  2:57           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22  9:44             ` Richard Miller
2005-07-22  9:49               ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-22 15:09                 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-07-22 14:14               ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-07-22 15:36               ` David Leimbach
2005-07-22 18:13                 ` jmk
2005-07-23  3:30                 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-07-23 16:19                   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21 16:12           ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-21 16:23             ` Russ Cox
2005-07-21 17:33             ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-07-21 18:13             ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-22  6:16               ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-22  6:20                 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-21 23:00             ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22  1:28               ` David Leimbach
2005-07-22  1:48               ` Russ Cox
2005-07-22  3:54                 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22  5:57                   ` lucio
2005-07-17 19:20     ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 19:47       ` John Floren
2005-07-17 19:44         ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 20:17           ` John Floren
2005-07-17 20:20             ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 20:58               ` Russ Cox
2005-07-17 19:45         ` Christopher Nielsen
2005-07-17 23:17         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-18  0:33           ` Dave Lukes
2005-07-18  7:31             ` lucio
2005-07-18 15:24             ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-18 15:33               ` David Leimbach
2005-07-18 13:51         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-18 15:54           ` arisawa
2005-07-18 16:46             ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-17 19:29     ` Tim Wiess
2005-07-19  0:33     ` arisawa
2005-07-19  1:04       ` arisawa
2005-07-17 18:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 18:30   ` andrey mirtchovski

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