From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Huntsman To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:58:37 +0000 Message-ID: References: , In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_MWHPR03MB2573919DE3059389155DA3B5E4F70MWHPR03MB2573namp_" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [9fans] There is no fork Topicbox-Message-UUID: cdd5113c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --_000_MWHPR03MB2573919DE3059389155DA3B5E4F70MWHPR03MB2573namp_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Out of curiosity, what's your use case for the NIX kernel? Use case?? My use case for NIX, and Plan 9 in general, is basically "fun" = and "curiosity". For my day job I run AIX, IBM i, and Windows when I have = to (which is a lot) :) ________________________________ From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net <9fans-bounces@9fans.net> on behalf of Giacom= o Tesio Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 4:20 PM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Subject: Re: [9fans] There is no fork 2018-02-12 0:48 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Huntsman : > Or, if one wants NIX but to stay a little closer to the original > distribution, are there options, or is Harvey the only way? Out of curiosity, what's your use case for the NIX kernel? @Lyndon: https://bitbucket.org/forsyth/plan9-9k forsyth / plan9-9k =97 Bitbucket bitbucket.org Source for an experimental 64-bit Plan 9 kernel, and supporting software. I= t features a revised memory-management system, MCS spin locks, and other ch= anges to system ... @Rui: Jehanne diverged a lot from Plan 9, in a pursuit for my vision of simplicity. While it's in no way a Unix, many won't even consider it a Plan 9 system. Still for anyone interested: http://jehanne.io Jehanne jehanne.io Jehanne, an operating system derived from Plan9. Introduction overview, scr= een shot, Joan Documentation Giacomo --_000_MWHPR03MB2573919DE3059389155DA3B5E4F70MWHPR03MB2573namp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> Out of curiosity, what's your use case for the NI= X kernel?


Use case??  My use case for NIX, and Plan 9 in general= , is basically "fun" and "curiosity".  For my day = job I run AIX, IBM i, and Windows when I have to (which is a lot) :)






From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.n= et <9fans-bounces@9fans.net> on behalf of Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@t= esio.it>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 4:20 PM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Subject: Re: [9fans] There is no fork
 
2018-02-12 0:48 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Huntsman &l= t;BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>:
> Or, if one wants NIX but to stay a little closer to the original
> distribution, are there options, or is Harvey the only way?

Out of curiosity, what's your use case for the NIX kernel?


@Lyndon: https://bitbucket.org/forsyth/plan9-9k
bitbucket.org
Source for an experimental 64-bit Plan 9 kernel, and supporting software. I= t features a revised memory-management system, MCS spin locks, and other ch= anges to system ...



@Rui: Jehanne diverged a lot from Plan 9, in a pursuit for my vision
of simplicity.
While it's in no way a Unix, many won't even consider it a Plan 9
system. Still for anyone interested: http://jehanne.io
jehanne.io
Jehanne, an operating system derived from Plan9. Introduction overview, scr= een shot, Joan Documentation




Giacomo

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