From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: hangar18@einstein.ssz.com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] A question of temperature... Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:41:58 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45a895a0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I was wondering if anyone has looked at creating 'process clients' that would sit on a machine (ala seti@home) and provide transient process space for a Plan 9 environment within the context of a host OS (eg Win98)? I gave a little talk about Plan 9 at the Austin Linux Group last Thu. and one question came up about multi-boot. I know that it's in the archives but has anyone condensed this material and orderd it as to what does or doesn't work? I'd like to give a vector to something more concise than several thousands of emails. Another item of note, the first meeting of the Plan 9 Users of Austin will be held the last Thursday of January. A notice will go out shortly with more details. The meeting will be monthly. Thanks go to the Austin Linux Group for providing us a nice place to meet with amenities. All are welcome! http://einstein.ssz.com/hangar18 We will post contact info for other Plan 9 user groups or mailing lists if they're interested. Which raises another question, the Linux group has arrangements with several vendors to take 'discount batch' orders of releases. Is there any plans to support user groups in this fashion for Plan 9? One observation I did note, the $100 price tag is still a tad too high. Most folks are used to paying sub-$50 for a release. They grumble about 'but what can I do with it to justify it?'. I got my Thinkpad 760XL put back together (I built it out of pieces from about a dozen busted ones) and it seems to be working. I'm running Linux as a burn in on it now. In about a week or so I'll load Plan 9. I'd like to hear from anyone who has used this machine with Plan 9. Please respond directly to me. So far I've gotten a single responce about the video hardware (though they hadn't actually installed it). Finally, anyone done anything with Lego Mindstorms and Plan 9? ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------