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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:32:37 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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I will do so as soon as I can find out why I get ACPI errors from the  
Linux kernel. Anyways, I am using Plan 9 now for building programs  
that solve some problems in the wiki's TODO page. I added simple  
table borders to htmlfmt and am going on to solve this problem:

	GUI image manipulation program - page(1) crossed with sam(1) which  
calls resample(1) and crop(1) (and other tools) would love to see  
this implemented in Acme.... --[++pac

I dropped the word GUI and am working on porting Bell Labs' pico to  
Plan 9.

On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:09 PM, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

>> May be the problem is that people are treating plan 9 as a
>> Van Gogh masterpiece when they should be treating as building
>> material :-)
>
> I sincerely hope for your sake that you don't treat your next Van Gogh
> masterpiece as building rubble.  Or treat Plan 9 as some sort of Linux
> surrogate.  Why not use the real thing, considering how much less
> wasteful it would be?
>
> ++L
>