Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9

[Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>]

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I think the system will stay alive as long as some of us use it.
Regarding drivers and the like, it's likely that we get them done as some of us
need them.

I'll try to help by proposing student projects along the lines suggested by
presotto. But wouldn't count on that too much, and right now I dont have the
time to pick up those tasks myself, sic.

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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:43:57 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310171042050.12273-100000@pink.lanl.gov>

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote:

> You see, without the reason to run Plan 9 it'll just become yet
> another dead operating system, just like Oberon recently discussed --
> the ideas from it live here to an extent, but the system itself has
> long gone...
>
> Opinions?

I'm with you. Plan 9 apps on Unix will suffer from all the things that are
wrong with Unix. It's kind of like Eunice, for all you fogies out there.

ron