I hope it's not junk. It is a bit a wiffy. brucee
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Axel Belinfante <axel.belinfa...@utwente.nl > wrote: > I couldn’t resist looking, and found in > http://www.osnews.com/comments/28699 > > "Harvey is an effort to get the Plan 9 code working with gcc and clang”. > > So, in a way it seems to be a port of Plan 9. > > More details, including the feature list below, are at > http://harvey-os.org > > Features > > • AMD 64 bit > • Modern, simplified syscall system > • GCC toolchain means you can use gdb(!) > • Compile in Linux or OSX using Harvey's headers and libs, no need to > change anything else > • Fast compilation of the whole system > • All Plan9 userland apps available > • Plans to add X11 with rio-like multiplexing, tty driver, new fileserver, > native toolchain and more > > I’m intrigued by the “compile … using Harvey's headers and libs, no need > to change anything else” — > I guess that means that it will be easy to “port” stuff to Harvey? > > The team list contains names well-known on this list... > > I must say, it looks quite interesting, worth checking out. > > Axel. > > On 25 Jul 2015, at 17:58, Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No clue. I'm guessing it's heavily inspired by Plan 9. > > On July 25, 2015 3:34:13 AM CDT, "st...@quintile.net" <st...@quintile.net> > wrote: >> >> not sure what Harvey is... is it just plan9 ported to build on gcc? >> >> if so does gcc run under Harvey? >> >> does gcc run under plan9 now? >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> >> On 25 Jul 2015, at 01:43, Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/harvey-an-operating-system-with-plan-9-s-shadow-3081414e5f0b >> >> I'm not affiliated with this whatsoever; I just saw it on Reddit and >> found it interesting. >> >> I found this part particularly neat: >> >> > We are working in ANSI POSIX environment to have most of well known >> tools and programs that programmers or end users expects to have in a >> modern operating system. Things that for traditional Plan 9 would be very >> difficult to have. >> >> -- >> Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> > -- > Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > >
