From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <57BB9228.5070600@gmail.com> <20160823021454.GA4212@staven.pl> <20160823053015.GA556@polynum.com> <20160823094639.GA495@polynum.com> <57BC43EB.60307@gmail.com> <8cfabb50-d906-b853-6cb9-1982acb76c44@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 From: stanley lieber Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:29:15 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9820c144-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Brantley Coile wrote: >We haven=E2=80=99t stopped= using it, but then again, we don=E2=80=99t talk much on the >list=2E > >I= =E2=80=99ve been using Plan 9 since 1995, before that I only used it at the= >Labs=2E I=E2=80=99ll be using it when I assume room temperature=2E > >We= still run Ken=E2=80=99s file server that Erik modified into a diskless fil= e >server using our AoE appliances behind it=2E I develop on Plan 9 >exclus= ively=2E And we use it as a distributed operating system running on >about = a dozen machines=2E > >I suspect that we might the be only ones=2E > > Bra= ntley > >> On Aug 23, 2016, at 2:06 PM, stanley lieber wr= ote: >> >> Don Bailey wrote: >> >>> Plan 9 sha= ll never die=2E >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:21 AM, David du Col= ombier ><0intro@gmail=2Ecom> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> I see from the archive (= http://marc=2Einfo/?l=3D9fans) there were no >>>> messages at >>>>> all in = June, maybe everyone was tired out after the 203 messages >in >>> May? >>>>= >>>> The 9fans mailing list was down from approximately June 1 to July >2= 5=2E >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David du Colombier >>>> >>>> >> >> People just s= top using it=2E >> >> sl >> >> I meant the people busy not posting on t= his mailing list=2E I run Plan 9 on my personal workstation, and we serve a= ll the 9front stuff (file shares, mailing lists, websites -- everything but= the mercurial repository) from Plan 9=2E The culture of this mailing list= has always been running UNIX and sometimes talking about Plan 9=2E First b= ecause Plan 9 was not generally available, and now because macbooks and the= web=2E Even the authors of Plan 9 quit research to build websites for a li= ving=2E They declared a Plan 9 free zone in their own computing lives over = a decade ago=2E To be fair, many people need to do things at a given momen= t that Plan 9 cannot be made to do without undertaking an enormous and like= ly futile effort=2E One of the reasons the project stalled is that it is to= o difficult to keep up with the demands of the outside world=2E I agree, i= t sucks=2E Are you hiring, by any chance? sl