From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <42cf76f91fe87f2d165ca2b7daecbffa@hera.eonet.ne.jp> From: John Floren Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:12:08 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] nix at lsub Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77c1b496-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:07 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:26 PM, =A0 wrote: >>> I was thinking along the lines of http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html, myse= lf, >>> 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"