From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:09:33 -0800 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016368e1f617c4bcf049519aa65 Subject: Re: [9fans] contrib/install fgb/X11? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7f27b79a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016368e1f617c4bcf049519aa65 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:04 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:01 AM, ron minnich wrote: > >> the contrib tools are based on replica and in my experience that makes >> them slow and fragile. You might want to give the 9pm stuff I did a >> try. It works,it's far faster, and they're trivial shell scripts that >> are easy to understand. Simple example, installing openssh is about 50 >> times faster -- minutes vs. hours -- using 9pm. >> >> Ah blast 9grid.net went away, I will get the guys to go kick it. >> > > I was going to ask for a link to 9pm. Is it on 9grid? > > I guess I'll search the archives to find out what 9pm is :-). > > Dave > Ah I've located your bitbucket... https://bitbucket.org/rminnich/plan9tools/src/tip/9pm/announcement Now I remember what this is. 9pm was the name of a predecessor to plan9port too IIRC. Dave > > >> >> ron >> >> > --0016368e1f617c4bcf049519aa65 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:04 AM, David L= eimbach <leimy2k@= gmail.com> wrote:


On Mon= , Nov 15, 2010 at 8:01 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>= wrote:
the contrib tools are based on replica and in my experience that makes
them slow and fragile. You might want to give the 9pm stuff I did a
try. It works,it's far faster, and they're trivial shell scripts th= at
are easy to understand. Simple example, installing openssh is about 50
times faster -- minutes vs. hours -- using 9pm.

Ah blast 9grid.net went = away, I will get the guys to go kick it.

I was going to ask for a link to 9pm. =A0Is it on 9grid? =A0<= /div>

I guess I'll search the archives to find out what 9pm is :-).

Dave

Ah I&= #39;ve located your bitbucket... =A0=A0https://bitbucket.org/rminnich/p= lan9tools/src/tip/9pm/announcement

Now I remember what this is. =A09pm was the name of a p= redecessor to plan9port too IIRC.

Dave
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ron



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