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From: Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:11:07 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiGbxjiyuHrO6gj4-_h4QwE38iTZaRAiufjdz2sKOinuhKAVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiGbxjo_N1dz3RYTtcvS_aEUe=n0g9wp98EHdY=2C28eEXdCw@mail.gmail.com>

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And, on a related note:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of-firefox/

On 31 August 2016 at 14:08, Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, but me, I prefer banging my head repeatedly against a brick wall
> while chewing broken glass to using this troff thing. In this case, the
> new-fangled stuff is just better, at least for normal people who just want
> to get stuff done.
>
> On 31 August 2016 at 12:51, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> some here still prefer hammer/chisel/stone to new-fangled
>> quill/ink/parchment
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:22 PM Chris McGee <sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sure,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for plan9 user/enthusiast appropriate medium. Any
>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> > On Aug 30, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Eduardo Alvarez <astrochelonian@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Are you keeping your progess public? It would be very educational to
>>> read.
>>> >
>>> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Chris McGee <sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> I am about a quarter of the way to a similar setup.
>>> >>
>>> >> My goal is to have a specialty for each of the Pi's (sensors,
>>> controller,
>>> >> terminal, router) without preventing them from doing general tasks.
>>> I'm
>>> >> hoping to eventually connect up some Pi zeros as leaf nodes for just
>>> >> sensor/control and plumb through 9P via UART pins.
>>> >>
>>> >> Chris
>>> >>
>>> >> On Aug 30, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <
>>> skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> It is straightforward and easy:
>>> >>
>>> >> https://plus.google.com/+SkipTavakkolian/posts/Fb846KhBMM6
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:54 AM Eduardo Alvarez <
>>> astrochelonian@gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I mostly lurk around here, as I'm greener than green when it comes to
>>> >>> plan 9. At some point in time, a friend and I were discussing setting
>>> >>> up a small-sized computing cluster for small scale distributed
>>> >>> computations. I was keen on the idea of using inexpensive hardware
>>> (we
>>> >>> even joked about using a truckloads of Raspberry Pis), and plan 9
>>> >>> seemed like an excellent candidate for the infrastructure. The
>>> biggest
>>> >>> challenge was porting software to Plan 9. Sadly, the idea never took
>>> >>> off. It would be a fun experiment.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Eduardo Alvarez
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Jules Merit
>>> >>> <jules.merit.eurocorp.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>> Well let's hope someone does something. Mark-my-words is writing
>>> >>>> beautiful
>>> >>>> code that has already been done.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Push a little button, get .hot .chocolate.
>>> >>>> -- Russ Cox Cable von Shane
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Aug 30, 2016 10:03 AM, "Skip Tavakkolian"
>>> >>>> <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
>>> >>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I heard that too (I think the woot was for Go on Plan 9/ARM).  I'm
>>> >>>>> sorry I
>>> >>>>> missed that meetup.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I've been thinking about setting up a meetup for 9fans in Seattle
>>> area.
>>> >>>>> There seems to be renewed interest (or perhaps it's my wishful
>>> >>>>> thinking).
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:27 AM michaelian ennis
>>> >>>>> <michaelian.ennis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Skip Tavakkolian
>>> >>>>>> <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> as a 9fan, I can say, not dead yet. In fact the population of
>>> 9fans
>>> >>>>>>> in
>>> >>>>>>> my neighborhood has doubled.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> And for the county it has at least tripled.  I heard at least one
>>> >>>>>> other
>>> >>>>>> woot for Plan9 at Brad Fitzpatrick's talk last week.  :)
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Ian
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-31  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-23  0:00 Adriano Verardo
2016-08-23  0:14 ` Winston Kodogo
2016-08-23  0:29   ` Adriano Verardo
2016-08-24  0:53     ` Winston Kodogo
2016-08-24  8:51       ` Adriano Verardo
2016-08-24 11:55         ` Brantley Coile
2016-08-24 13:00           ` Nickolas Peter
2016-08-24 13:10             ` Brantley Coile
2016-08-24 13:54               ` Nickolas Peter
2016-08-26  0:38                 ` Kim Shrier
2016-08-28 23:46                   ` erik quanstrom
2016-08-26 16:28           ` Richard Miller
2016-08-23  0:16 ` Steve Simon
2016-08-23  0:25   ` Adriano Verardo
2016-08-23  2:14 ` Staven
2016-08-23  5:30   ` tlaronde
2016-08-23  6:06     ` Andrew Nazarov
2016-08-23  7:05       ` David Walther
2016-08-23 19:52         ` Kurt H Maier
2016-09-15 10:02           ` David Walther
     [not found]             ` <CAEVxPTMusObVM6YwcbUcbZeEk227Urwefpik7r8ifZRx0ux1pg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <CAEVxPTNNg+LZEXnNLNG68RYui-kb_7AQpTO6ud=pHfSp6d9T5w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-15 17:38                 ` Jules Merit
2016-08-23  9:01       ` Costin Chirvasuta
2016-08-23  9:46         ` tlaronde
2016-08-23 11:56           ` hiro
2016-08-23 12:39           ` Adriano Verardo
2016-08-23 14:00             ` Peter Hull
2016-08-23 14:21               ` David du Colombier
2016-08-23 17:52                 ` Don Bailey
2016-08-23 18:06                   ` stanley lieber
2016-08-23 18:11                     ` Brantley Coile
2016-08-23 18:29                       ` stanley lieber
2016-08-23 20:11                         ` Jules Merit
2016-08-28 23:52                         ` erik quanstrom
2016-08-23 18:29                       ` Jules Merit
2016-08-23 19:51                       ` Adriano Verardo
2016-08-23 20:51                       ` Steven Stallion
2016-08-23 21:32                         ` Steve Simon
2016-08-23  7:54   ` Brantley Coile
2016-08-23 19:26 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-08-23 19:32   ` stanley lieber
2016-08-28 23:51     ` erik quanstrom
2016-08-30 16:26   ` michaelian ennis
2016-08-30 17:01     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-08-30 17:34       ` Kurt H Maier
2016-08-30 18:41       ` Jules Merit
2016-08-30 18:54         ` Eduardo Alvarez
2016-08-30 19:05           ` Jules Merit
2016-08-30 19:36           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-08-30 21:41             ` hiro
2016-08-30 21:58               ` Steven Stallion
2016-08-30 22:02                 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-08-30 22:10                   ` Steven Stallion
2016-08-30 22:07                 ` hiro
2016-08-30 22:10             ` Chris McGee
2016-08-30 22:18               ` Eduardo Alvarez
2016-08-30 22:22                 ` Chris McGee
2016-08-30 22:26                   ` cinap_lenrek
2016-08-31  0:51                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-08-31  1:35                     ` Chris McGee
2016-08-31  2:08                     ` Winston Kodogo
2016-08-31  2:11                       ` Winston Kodogo [this message]
2016-09-15 20:37                         ` Bryan Harris
2016-08-31  3:48                     ` Kurt H Maier
2016-08-31  5:52                       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-08-31  6:40                         ` Kurt H Maier
2016-08-31  7:58                           ` Brantley Coile
2016-08-31 17:55                           ` Steven Stallion
2016-08-31 18:36                             ` stanley lieber
2016-08-31 20:59                               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-08-31 21:36                                 ` stanley lieber
2016-09-01  2:53                                   ` Winston Kodogo
2016-09-01  7:54                                     ` Julius Schmidt
2016-09-01 23:01                                       ` Winston Kodogo
2016-09-01  9:21                                 ` fgergo
2016-08-31 19:03                             ` Kurt H Maier
2016-08-31 14:04                   ` Eduardo Alvarez
     [not found] <741901743.1038803.1471983485978.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2016-08-23 20:18 ` Brian L. Stuart

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