* [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News @ 2012-08-18 3:57 Matthew Veety 2012-08-18 5:03 ` andrey mirtchovski 2012-08-20 8:48 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Matthew Veety @ 2012-08-18 3:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 For what it's worth, our beloved operating system is on Hacker News. -- Veety ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-18 3:57 [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News Matthew Veety @ 2012-08-18 5:03 ` andrey mirtchovski 2012-08-18 8:55 ` Nick LaForge 2012-08-20 8:48 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2012-08-18 5:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 I like presotto's comment. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-18 5:03 ` andrey mirtchovski @ 2012-08-18 8:55 ` Nick LaForge 2012-08-18 13:56 ` Kurt H Maier 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Nick LaForge @ 2012-08-18 8:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Oh yeah, already a comment about the GUI 'sucking'! A bit more fortitude is in order, right? Even if the status quo is to be a WIMP? Regardless, it takes a lazy dilettante to complain in this manner about a research system (an incredibly malleable one, to boot). It also seems that rio's simplicity wasn't sufficient a hint that replacing it might be simple too. On 8/17/12, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 > > I like presotto's comment. > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-18 8:55 ` Nick LaForge @ 2012-08-18 13:56 ` Kurt H Maier 2012-08-18 14:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Kurt H Maier @ 2012-08-18 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:55:15AM -0700, Nick LaForge wrote: > Oh yeah, already a comment about the GUI 'sucking'! A bit more > fortitude is in order, right? The thing you have to remember about "hacker news" is that nothing posted there is news and none of the people who frequent it are hackers. "Web Developer with an Unwarranted Sense of Self-Importance" just doesn't roll off the tongue quite as readily as "hacker," just like "link-dump and self promotion" doesn't have the same ring as "news." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-18 13:56 ` Kurt H Maier @ 2012-08-18 14:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu [not found] ` <CAEAzY3-RhKsEEGcCkFQaJ09gfO2zND_qxFoybsThKVQ+iDKg-w@mail.gmail.c> 2012-08-18 17:23 ` Matthew Veety 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Aram Hăvărneanu @ 2012-08-18 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs > The thing you have to remember about "hacker news" is that nothing > posted there is news and none of the people who frequent it are hackers. The original name of Hacker News was unsurprisingly Startup News. Not how do we punish John Floren for this statement :-)? POSIX defines a pretty good framework, which is why Plan 9 is POSIX-ish. -- Aram Hăvărneanu ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News [not found] ` <CAEAzY3-RhKsEEGcCkFQaJ09gfO2zND_qxFoybsThKVQ+iDKg-w@mail.gmail.c> @ 2012-08-18 14:37 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2012-08-18 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > Not how do we punish John Floren for this statement :-)? > > POSIX defines a pretty good framework, which is why Plan 9 is POSIX-ish. i'd have to say that posix is unixish, and plan 9 is a follow on to unix, so it's not surprising that many of the system calls have survived, if not unscathed. but it's a sibling (or, if you're a positive thinker, distant cousin, once removed) relationship not a parent child relationship. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-18 13:56 ` Kurt H Maier 2012-08-18 14:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu [not found] ` <CAEAzY3-RhKsEEGcCkFQaJ09gfO2zND_qxFoybsThKVQ+iDKg-w@mail.gmail.c> @ 2012-08-18 17:23 ` Matthew Veety 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Matthew Veety @ 2012-08-18 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On Aug 18, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:55:15AM -0700, Nick LaForge wrote: >> Oh yeah, already a comment about the GUI 'sucking'! A bit more >> fortitude is in order, right? > > The thing you have to remember about "hacker news" is that nothing > posted there is news and none of the people who frequent it are hackers. > > "Web Developer with an Unwarranted Sense of Self-Importance" just > doesn't roll off the tongue quite as readily as "hacker," just like > "link-dump and self promotion" doesn't have the same ring as "news." > > That's why I go on there. It's so entertaining reading so many dick-size competitions in one place. I do have to say though, there are some occasional gems regarding golang on there (which I find *really* surprising). -- Veety ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-18 3:57 [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News Matthew Veety 2012-08-18 5:03 ` andrey mirtchovski @ 2012-08-20 8:48 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 2012-08-20 9:22 ` cinap_lenrek ` (2 more replies) 1 sibling, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Balwinder S Dheeman @ 2012-08-20 8:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans On 08/18/2012 09:27 AM, Matthew Veety wrote: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 > > For what it's worth, our beloved operating system is on Hacker News. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to Unix® users but at the same time quite foreign, because it indeed is not a Unix. 9P2000 (aka 9P) is a network protocol developed at Bell Labs for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of accessing and manipulating resources and applications transparently in a distributed environment. 9P works both as a distributed file system and as a network transparent and language agnostic 'API'. Though Plan 9 does not have office productivity suites, relational databases, and, or even a decent web browser like Chromium, or Firefox, modren C++ compiler, good GUI tool-kit or widgets and essential drivers for AHCI, Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMAX and USB devices and a fully fuctional IPv6 networking as yet, but it certainly is an example of a clean, efficient, compact and monolithic kernel and distributed operating system environment which provides a native light weight window system rio, shell rc, text editor sam and versatile tools like acme, a user interface, plumber, a mechanism for interprocess communication and acid, a scriptable debugger for programmers, all in very small footprint. -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-20 8:48 ` Balwinder S Dheeman @ 2012-08-20 9:22 ` cinap_lenrek 2012-08-20 9:23 ` cinap_lenrek 2012-08-20 12:25 ` Jack Norton 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: cinap_lenrek @ 2012-08-20 9:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans ahci works. richard miller wrote a bluetooth stack. wifi and usb just need more drivers. ipv6 is supported. -- cinap ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-20 8:48 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 2012-08-20 9:22 ` cinap_lenrek @ 2012-08-20 9:23 ` cinap_lenrek 2012-08-20 10:37 ` hiro 2012-08-20 12:25 ` Jack Norton 2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: cinap_lenrek @ 2012-08-20 9:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans theres also a commercial c++ compiler if you really need one. http://www.comeaucomputing.com/ -- cinap ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-20 9:23 ` cinap_lenrek @ 2012-08-20 10:37 ` hiro 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: hiro @ 2012-08-20 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs "decent web browser" is an oxymoron. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News 2012-08-20 8:48 ` Balwinder S Dheeman 2012-08-20 9:22 ` cinap_lenrek 2012-08-20 9:23 ` cinap_lenrek @ 2012-08-20 12:25 ` Jack Norton 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Jack Norton @ 2012-08-20 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On 8/20/2012 3:48 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > office productivity suites, relational > databases, and, or even a decent web browser like Chromium, or Firefox, > modren C++ compiler, good GUI tool-kit or widgets These all have an "all useful features" version on plan9 called catclock. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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