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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] Another "craft" discussion topic - mindless tool proliferation
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:40:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CDAD055B-47A1-4528-9A56-96E5A8F7BE64@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170922003624.GL25650@mcvoy.com>


> On Sep 21, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> That's really on the maintainers, it's a shame they haven't kept those
> up to date.  Either update them or add to them, there has to be something
> worth writing up.
> 
> I used to *love* those manuals.

Plan 9's /sys/doc is refreshing.  And still mostly up to date.

Not because the documents haven't been updated lately, but because the OS has no need for feeping creaturism.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-22  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-19 17:01 Jon Steinhart
2017-09-19 17:05 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-19 20:31   ` Pete Turnbull
2017-09-19 20:37     ` Warner Losh
2017-09-19 23:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-20  0:47   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20  1:02     ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20  1:09       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20  1:13         ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20  1:22           ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20  2:01             ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20  2:34               ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20  2:47                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20  6:18                   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20  4:35                 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20  5:54                   ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-24 23:03                 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-24 23:35                   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 16:49             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-20  4:29         ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20  6:43         ` Peter Jeremy
2017-09-20  8:25           ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20  9:12             ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20  9:34               ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 16:48         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-20  2:07       ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-24 22:58         ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-20  4:26       ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 16:45     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-21 17:33     ` Tony Finch
2017-09-21 18:39       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-22  0:02         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-22  0:30           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22  0:38             ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22  0:39               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22  0:50                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22  1:01                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22  1:08                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 20:09                       ` [TUHS] remaking make (Re: " Bakul Shah
2017-09-22  2:25                   ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2017-09-22  3:26               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-22  4:09                 ` ron minnich
2017-09-22  2:20             ` Warner Losh
2017-09-22  0:36           ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22  0:40             ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2017-09-22  1:53             ` Michael Parson
2017-09-22  3:25       ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20  6:20   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-20 16:39   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-24 22:54   ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-25  0:16     ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-25 11:30       ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-20 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 18:35   ` Jon Steinhart

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