From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:48:46 -0500 From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: "Martin C. Atkins" Subject: Re: Plan9ish virtual consoles, etc. (was Re: [9fans] First-timer help) In-Reply-To: <20050730214937.4a09c5e3@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050730112540.5de8ae86@localhost.localdomain> <20050730214937.4a09c5e3@localhost.localdomain> Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71c069b8-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/30/05, Martin C. Atkins wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:02:04 -0500 Eric Van Hensbergen = 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. >=20 > It seems I assumed too much - this is very nice to hear! >=20 > Thanks for filling us in with the background, Eric. >=20 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