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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Mar 2018 13:38:04 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fwd: ubiquitous environment?
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On 3 March 2018 at 20:27, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> Octopus would run on Plan 9, although we used inferno for (hosted) terminals,
> and it used Op as the protocol (a descendant of 9p like everyone else),

Ok. So does anybody use octopus these days?
Why not? (Who wouldn't like a ubiquitous environment?)
What do the authors of octopus use instead these days? (Clive seems
to me to serve a completely different purpose.)

It seems the octopus environment uses a tile-like management
of its windows, unlike rio, where windows can overlap.
Has anybody done any experiments to arrive at a rio-like feel?

How is it with the need for inferno?
(I tried to install octopus now on 9front. Unfortunately it asks me
too many questions I am, at this moment, unable to answer---I do
not understand them.)

Thanks
Ruda