Re: [9fans] nix at lsub

[John Floren <john@jfloren.net>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:07 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:26 PM,  <kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> I was thinking along the lines of http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html, myself,
>>> using a child of Inferno.
>>
>> Yeah, sound like interesting.
>> Can I try this octopus on some of the PC still now?
>> because I didn't do it, and have no idea of this.
>>
>> Whe I tried inferno, I god bad feeling of its gui (sorry all).
>>
>> Kenji
>>
>>
>
> I've run Octopus a little bit. It's got an interesting UI (Omero) and
> some of the features are pretty cool--I ended up being able to cite
> the Octopus paper in my master's thesis :) I had some trouble with
> running it at first (O/mero wouldn't start properly, unfortunately I
> can't recall the error, I think it's in the 9fans archive), but the
> setup scripts make it pretty simple to configure.
>
> John

I guess the thing I was aiming for but forgot to type was, "Yes, you
can still try out Octopus, I set it up under Linux for fun about a
month ago and it worked just fine"