Re: Plan9ish virtual consoles, etc. (was Re: [9fans] First-timer help)

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 7/30/05, Martin C. Atkins <martin_ml@parvat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:02:04 -0500 Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I talked to Jim directly about this.  He's very pro-plan 9 and talked
> > about Rob's influence on the Xrender extensions.  He also spoke in
> > vocal support of unlocking Linux's private namespaces as a key
> > component of this stuff.  I pointed him at the v9fs stuff and also
> > told him about Plan9ports, which he was pretty excited about --
> > particularly when he heard venti was now part of it.
> 
> It seems I assumed too much - this is very nice to hear!
> 
> Thanks for filling us in with the background, Eric.
> 

Well he was open to the ideas, but probably not completely sold (he
talked a lot about using Coda as a base file system for instance).  It
definitely seems like a good vision in which to demonstrate some of
Plan 9/Inferno's unique attributes so we should probably try to "link
up" with his efforts as much as possible and make a case for Plan 9
technology and techniques over alternatives.

         -eric