From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130907131742g746fa52cq45e6510aaf7d0b83@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaafc130907131518y74523ef8rf9ddb92fb3d3d105@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10907131616k203f0676yb181157cac24d179@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130907131641x23280307p7c5a478d9ae93a4@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130907131742g746fa52cq45e6510aaf7d0b83@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:58:59 -0500 Message-ID: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1e5a462c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen wr= ote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:41 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM, ron minnich wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: >> they'll make it into mainline and then we just need to focus on >> education by presenting demos at places like OLS, Plumbers, and LCA -- >> and maybe get some good video podcast tutorials up on YouTube to get >> people wanting and using the features. =A0Of course the main thing is >> finding a niche that needs the features and selling them on it. =A0The >> focus on cloud computing and other cluster type solutions in >> mainstream computing may be helpful there. > > Yes, showing people the benefits of /net and how simple clustering is > will be the path to victory. People will be amazed when they see how > easy it is to make 5 computers pretend to be one. > I can validate this to some extent. The ability to transitively mount /net was one of the most popular features of the Library OS environment I worked on a few years back. It was really easy for Linux and UNIX minded folks to grasp how powerful it was: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D1254810.1254817 -eric