From: "Iruatã Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 in Brazil
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:09:49 +0200 [thread overview]
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Le sam. 29 août 2020 à 23:02, Lucas Francesco <lucas.francesco93@gmail.com>
a écrit :
> I think we're way beyond the peak of 3 if consider non 9labs, as I'm a
> brazillian myself and have been using 9front for almost 2y, and have been
> slowly introducing my brother and my current mate to it.
>
I'm glad to hear that! The 3 persons back then were Federico Benavento
(fgb), Felipe Bichued and I.
> Leo, best of luck on the distro though, I'd really like 9 to be
> niche-popular but I don't think translating stuff is the way to go, if it
> wasn't for covid I was going to start lecturing about it at the uni I'm in
> but with prior warnings that all the content is in English.
>
> Lucas
>
> Em sáb, 29 de ago de 2020 16:55, Iruatã Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> Le sam. 29 août 2020 à 19:26, Leonardo <leonardohcoelho@gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Cool!
>>>
>>> I want to make a Plan 9 distro aimed at brazilians: I'm at the beginning
>>> of this journey. My plan is to translate all the documentation (articles
>>> and man pages), try to make the system more user friendly (not for hackers
>>> but for common people) and also work in ordinary software like a modern
>>> browser, a word processor, spreadsheet software, a kind of powerpoint etc.
>>>
>>>
>> As another historical note, for a number of years (2006 to 2009 iirc)
>> Plan 9 reached the peak of 3 regular users in Brazil. Others came and went,
>> but those 3 are responsible for at least abaco, the initial python port,
>> and the initial work into what is now the 9front bootloader.
>>
>> So, Leonardo, welcome aboard :)
>>
>> Besides translation, what are the Brazilian-specific needs you are trying
>> to address?
>> I highly recommend you search the list for other projects similar to
>> yours.
>>
>> Anyway, I wish you the best of luck in the journey!
>>
>> iru
>>
>>
>>> I am studying Plan 9 and I am totally in love with it: read files, write
>>> to files and again: read files, write to files. And what else do you need
>>> to do? Little or nothing: things are really simple. The NSA invented
>>> SELinux (mandatory access control) because it saw that, from a security
>>> point of view, the idea of discretionary access control did not provide
>>> much. Okay, it's an idea and it works. But Plan 9, before, had introduced
>>> the idea of namespace which is, by the way, a much simpler and smarter
>>> idea: each process can have its own restricted view of the universe of
>>> files. I really don't understand why Plan 9 has not been adopted. Legacy
>>> base?
>>>
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-02 8:52 Iruatã Souza
2020-05-02 16:31 ` [9fans] " Robert Sherwood
2020-08-29 17:25 ` Leonardo
2020-08-29 17:43 ` Wes Kussmaul
2020-08-29 18:36 ` Leonardo
2020-08-29 19:51 ` Wes Kussmaul
2020-08-29 21:10 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-08-29 19:54 ` Iruatã Souza
2020-08-29 21:03 ` Lucas Francesco
2020-08-29 22:09 ` Iruatã Souza [this message]
2020-08-31 2:52 ` Leonardo
2020-08-29 21:19 ` Lucas Francesco
2020-08-29 22:04 ` Iruatã Souza
2020-08-30 16:53 ` Leonardo
2020-08-30 19:40 ` Iruatã Souza
2020-08-31 1:29 ` Leonardo
2020-08-31 1:32 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-08-31 2:03 ` Leonardo
2020-08-29 21:30 ` ori
2020-09-01 11:52 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-09-01 12:10 ` hiro
2020-09-01 12:19 ` Ethan Gardener
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