From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Geoff Collyer To: 9fans@collyer.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 Usenix BOF, 12 June 2003 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:43:28 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cbb963f2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It was a smaller BOF than some, but lively. Other 9fans in attendance included Dave Presotto of Bell Labs, Ron Minnich and Andrey Mirtchovski of Los Alamos National Laboratories, Dan Cross, Eric Van Hensbergen, now of IBM Austin Research, and Tom Glinos of the University of Toronto. Also in attendance was Andrew Hume of AT&T Research. There were others, many of whom I didn't recognise by sight, probably 30 or so in total. Though much anticipated, no one from Hanger 18 attended (or at least they didn't identify themselves). No guns nor Harleys were in evidence. The licence has been changed and I don't really understand the implications, except that the Open Source Institute blessed the penultimate version and declared it officially ``open source''. See plan9.bell-labs.com/hidden/nntemplate.html. It might be worth pointing the OpenBSD folks at this licence if they are serious about using the Plan 9 C compilers. The LANL folks demonstrated their little diskless 4-machine cluster using Linuxbios and running Plan 9. Dave Presotto announced that pxeload is working and that he will push ipv6config and more power pc ports out to sources. IPSEC is not happening, but he'd like to add process migration. Russ Cox is preparing a new distribution (5e?). Rob Pike had a fairly serious bicycle accident 2 - 3 weeks ago and I'm sure we all wish him well. He has been back at work at Google part-time. I can't recall much else, but the BOF ran for two hours and a good time was had by most, if not all. Many people adjourned to the hotel bar (or just outside it, as Texas and San Antonio apparently have no non-smoking laws).