From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan ? (was: native install)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:20:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA6E17F6-B8F0-4D1B-9DEE-54F60EF7089E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74D7F419-45B5-4A7C-BEC9-BD00DE32619C@rejaa.com>
On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave wrote:
> hello
>
> This way (dot-it-your-self-way) we will "only" have one-man
> projects. . .
Do it yourself refers to the community doing anything they need. Most
things are so trivial that one or two people can do it. That doesn't
mean there has never been a multi person collaboration.
> slds.
>
> gabi
>
> El 30/03/2010, a las 12:19, hugo rivera escribió:
>
>> I agree with Steve.
>> I like the community approach to this matter: if plan9 doesn't have
>> what you need, do it yourself; if you do something that might be
>> useful for others share it and see what happens.
>> Being a newbie myself I find very hard to write my own utilities, but
>> that's a good way to learn ;-)
>>
>>
>> 2010/3/30 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
>>>> No one's willing to spearhead a "General Purpose 9" experiment,
>>>> and no
>>>> one's interested in collaborating on and contributing to such a
>>>> project?
>>>>
>>>> "If you want [general purpose], you know where to get it." seems to
>>>> be the period that ends all such discussion.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't quite agree, the discussions usually end one of three
>>> ways:
>>>
>>> - somone wants somthing like gnome, and are encouraged to run linux.
>>>
>>> - somone wants "the community" to port smthing like gnome and
>>> noone is
>>> interested so they get bored and go away.
>>>
>>> - somone wants to write some code to solve a problem they have
>>> with plan9
>>> and the just get on with it and tell the list when its done.
>>>
>>> An example:
>>>
>>> I need SVN support at work, cinap has wrapped up his linuxemu with
>>> the snv
>>> client and the apropriate shared libraries (thanks cinap). This
>>> allows me to
>>> continue using plan9 (as I do every day, all day).
>>>
>>> In parallel I now have written a webdav client which I hope will
>>> become
>>> a DeltaV/SVN client for plan9. I feel its worth writing as I think
>>> it is
>>> interesting to try and fit the plan9 file model to SVN's version
>>> control model.
>>>
>>> I wanted it, I got on with it and wrote it.
>>>
>>>> I can't help but wonder: where's the crux of the inertia?
>>>
>>> An interesting question. If you can garner enthusism from the list
>>> perhaps you can be "the one" to spearhead a new burst of enthusism?
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Hugo
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-30 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-21 21:33 [9fans] using acme/Mail from plan9port in Linux Lorenzo Bolla
2009-11-21 22:27 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2009-12-17 7:48 ` Jason Catena
2010-03-23 11:18 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-23 13:02 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2010-03-23 13:27 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-23 13:37 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2010-03-23 14:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-23 15:13 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-23 15:41 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-23 16:10 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-23 16:41 ` Russ Cox
2010-03-23 17:02 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-23 19:47 ` Russ Cox
2010-03-24 9:50 ` [9fans] VIA Rhine II support? EBo
2010-03-24 10:24 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-25 18:56 ` Harri Haataja
2010-03-25 19:08 ` EBo
2010-03-24 9:59 ` [9fans] native install EBo
2010-03-24 14:56 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-24 15:17 ` Richard Miller
2010-03-24 15:22 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-03-24 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-24 16:05 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-24 19:18 ` Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave
2010-03-24 19:48 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-24 20:17 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-24 21:49 ` David du Colombier
2010-04-09 19:36 ` Tom West
2010-04-09 20:20 ` EBo
2010-04-10 2:26 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-10 9:21 ` Gabriel Diaz
2010-04-10 12:54 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-10 16:28 ` Gabriel Diaz
2010-04-10 19:38 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 12:37 ` Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave
2010-04-11 15:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 15:37 ` Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave
2010-04-11 15:40 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-24 20:11 ` EBo
2010-03-24 20:19 ` John Floren
2010-03-24 20:41 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 1:21 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-25 1:35 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 11:15 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-25 13:25 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 10:28 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-25 15:43 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 13:37 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-25 18:58 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 20:04 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 22:34 ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-26 6:00 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-25 14:10 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 1:52 ` Maht
2010-03-25 2:05 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-24 22:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-03-24 15:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-28 14:32 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-28 14:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-29 19:57 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-29 20:21 ` michael block
2010-03-28 14:44 ` maht
2010-03-29 20:07 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-29 20:16 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-29 22:38 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 20:52 ` maht
2010-03-29 20:58 ` Corey
2010-03-29 20:57 ` ron minnich
2010-03-29 21:09 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-30 0:20 ` [9fans] Plan ? (was: native install) Corey
2010-03-30 0:24 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-30 1:21 ` Corey
2010-03-30 2:02 ` Iruata Souza
2010-03-30 2:07 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-30 6:41 ` Corey
2010-03-30 2:17 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-30 3:10 ` Rahul Murmuria
2010-03-30 18:23 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-30 18:25 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-30 18:44 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-01 10:13 ` [9fans] Plan ? William Cowan
2010-03-30 9:28 ` [9fans] Plan ? (was: native install) Steve Simon
2010-03-30 10:19 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-30 10:33 ` Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave
2010-03-30 10:40 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-30 11:40 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-03-30 12:20 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2010-03-30 12:34 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-30 13:28 ` tlaronde
2010-03-30 13:45 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-30 17:07 ` Albert Skye
2010-03-30 17:13 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-30 18:09 ` Nick LaForge
2010-03-30 18:03 ` tlaronde
2010-03-30 2:11 ` Iruata Souza
2010-04-07 22:52 ` [9fans] bootiso.s fixed cinap_lenrek
2010-04-08 0:08 ` ron minnich
2010-04-08 15:04 ` David Leimbach
2010-04-08 1:14 ` Iruata Souza
2010-04-08 14:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-08 15:05 ` David Leimbach
2010-04-08 19:18 ` Jorden M
2010-04-08 18:11 ` ron minnich
2010-04-08 18:17 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-08 18:28 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-08 19:05 ` ron minnich
2010-04-08 19:07 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-08 19:36 ` cinap_lenrek
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