From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <89FDB329-B008-41C3-BAB2-3B8B801BE9B2@gmail.com> <02f5fc7d-bf68-4f91-ab82-6b79d6cebe99@posteo.net> From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 14:07:55 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms Topicbox-Message-UUID: e00769fe-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i think the original planet software ran on linux. right now cat-v.org is maintained by sl, and on 9front, not linux. and it might indeed be best to concentrate on creating software of actual value, as opposed to administrating even more third-party systems that don't share our style of approach... i suppose you could check the individual blogs, possibly in an automated way by writing some one-liner rc and hget script and publish the outcome, plus keep it updated. then perhaps you can figure out if this is the kind of information currently lacking. On 9/2/18, Lucio De Re wrote: > On 9/2/18, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> there used to also be a planet/rss aggregation, but nobody alive knows >> how to get the used software behind this to run on plan9 again > > I used to be a debugging whiz, in happier, more youthful times, maybe > I can give that a try (it seems a challenge, rather than a really > useful idea). Would you care to make that available? > > I do think there are many here who would be better at this, so if you > say "no one alive" it does sound totally hopeless. But I presume > you're exaggerating :-). > > Lucio. > >