From: "steve@quintile.net" <steve@quintile.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:13:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F7BE8271-C198-44CE-A7BA-113B707954A0@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37f54ed1-6dfd-4521-94e1-f2bb01dfe5c3@email.android.com>
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don't get me wrong, I don't want gcc, but my employer requires it, and I would rather develop on plan even if I cannot develop for plan9.
I do this at present, my main machine is a pi2, and my gcc, Firefox, and outlook co-processor is a windows laptop. it works, but I resent carting a laptop around.
-Steve
> On 26 Jul 2015, at 18:33, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> just speaking for myself, I found the fact that plan 9 was a self contained thing to be a must have. i don't consider the gcc toolchain to be a feature.
>
> if "fast compilation" is a feature over plan 9, I'd like to see some numbers.
>
> - erik
> On Jul 25, 2015 3:15 PM, Axel Belinfante <axel.belinfante@utwente.nl> wrote:
> I couldn’t resist looking, and found in http://www.osnews.com/comments/28699
>
> "Harvey is an effort to get the Plan 9 code working with gcc and clang”.
>
> So, in a way it seems to be a port of Plan 9.
>
> More details, including the feature list below, are at http://harvey-os.org
>
> Features
>
> • AMD 64 bit
> • Modern, simplified syscall system
> • GCC toolchain means you can use gdb(!)
> • Compile in Linux or OSX using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to change anything else
> • Fast compilation of the whole system
> • All Plan9 userland apps available
> • Plans to add X11 with rio-like multiplexing, tty driver, new fileserver, native toolchain and more
>
> I’m intrigued by the “compile … using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to change anything else” —
> I guess that means that it will be easy to “port” stuff to Harvey?
>
> The team list contains names well-known on this list...
>
> I must say, it looks quite interesting, worth checking out.
>
> Axel.
>
> On 25 Jul 2015, at 17:58, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No clue. I'm guessing it's heavily inspired by Plan 9.
>
> On July 25, 2015 3:34:13 AM CDT, "steve@quintile.net" <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> not sure what Harvey is... is it just plan9 ported to build on gcc?
>
> if so does gcc run under Harvey?
>
> does gcc run under plan9 now?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> On 25 Jul 2015, at 01:43, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/harvey-an-operating-system-with-plan-9-s-shadow-3081414e5f0b
>
> I'm not affiliated with this whatsoever; I just saw it on Reddit and found it interesting.
>
> I found this part particularly neat:
>
> > We are working in ANSI POSIX environment to have most of well known tools and programs that programmers or end users expects to have in a modern operating system. Things that for traditional Plan 9 would be very difficult to have.
>
> --
> Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> --
> Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-26 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-25 0:43 Ryan Gonzalez
2015-07-25 8:34 ` steve
2015-07-25 15:58 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-07-25 22:15 ` Axel Belinfante
2015-07-25 22:46 ` Rob Pike
2015-07-26 0:20 ` Prof Brucee
2015-07-26 9:35 ` a.regenfuss
2015-07-26 11:01 ` steve
2015-07-26 12:08 ` Prof Brucee
2015-07-26 15:50 ` Anthony Martin
2015-07-26 17:33 ` erik quanstrom
2015-07-26 17:54 ` hiro
2015-07-26 18:01 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-07-26 19:52 ` erik quanstrom
2015-07-26 20:02 ` Prof Brucee
2015-07-26 17:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-07-26 18:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-07-26 20:13 ` steve [this message]
2015-07-26 20:47 ` hiro
2015-07-26 20:50 ` erik quanstrom
2015-07-26 20:59 ` hiro
2015-07-27 2:18 ` erik quanstrom
2015-07-27 9:06 ` hiro
2015-07-27 12:08 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-07-27 13:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-07-27 14:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-07-27 14:19 ` Anthony Sorace
2015-07-27 14:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-07-27 15:13 ` Stanley Lieber
2015-07-27 15:03 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-07-27 20:03 ` Nicolas Bercher
2015-07-27 15:24 ` Daniel Valio
2015-07-27 15:28 ` lucio
2015-07-27 16:48 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-07-27 21:33 ` Daniel Valio
2015-07-27 21:42 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-07-27 21:44 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-07-28 1:12 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-07-28 14:26 ` Mauro Rezzonico
2015-07-27 15:14 lucio
2015-07-27 15:31 ` hiro
2015-07-27 15:36 ` lucio
2015-07-27 21:37 ` hiro
2015-07-28 5:01 ` lucio
2015-07-28 5:29 ` lucio
2015-07-28 1:49 Daryl M
2015-07-28 12:58 ` Daniel Valio
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