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From: FJ Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fwd: ubiquitous environment?
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I don't think anyone is running it anymore.
At least, I'm not running it.
Sorry.

> El 8 mar 2018, a las 13:38, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> escrib=
i=C3=B3:
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>> On 3 March 2018 at 20:27, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
>> Octopus would run on Plan 9, although we used inferno for (hosted) termin=
als,
>> and it used Op as the protocol (a descendant of 9p like everyone else),
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> Ok. So does anybody use octopus these days?
> Why not? (Who wouldn't like a ubiquitous environment?)
> What do the authors of octopus use instead these days? (Clive seems
> to me to serve a completely different purpose.)
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> It seems the octopus environment uses a tile-like management
> of its windows, unlike rio, where windows can overlap.
> Has anybody done any experiments to arrive at a rio-like feel?
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> How is it with the need for inferno?
> (I tried to install octopus now on 9front. Unfortunately it asks me
> too many questions I am, at this moment, unable to answer---I do
> not understand them.)
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> Thanks
> Ruda
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