[9fans] 9fans archive engine

2011-07-15 Thread rbnsw-plan9
> Is the software which powers 9fans web archive publicly available? Which one? :-) I prefer the mailman archive available only to list members since it allows the messages to be sorted by subject/author/date/thread and of course, the source for mailman is available. I'm note sure why there are

[9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto

2011-07-11 Thread rbnsw-plan9
Not to rain on anyone's summer of code project but I think producing a Linux distro that runs on top of Plan 9 would be more beneficial to the Plan 9's future than a Plan 9 userspace on top of Glendix, though nowhere as interesting. I've no problem with a kernel that could run both Plan 9 and Li

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-30 Thread rbnsw-plan9
--- On Tue, 28/6/11, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Speaking of device numbers, I was surprised that Plan 9 has a similar >> notion.  However, they are only useful with kernel resident device >> numbers.  Does Plan 9 have some other mechanism that allow one to >> identify the class of device/file ser

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-27 Thread rbnsw-plan9
--- On Wed, 22/6/11, David Lukes wrote: >... > I'm no RFS guru, thank deity, but I did RTFC once and "F" > was apposite. It took me a little time to figure out RTFC wasn't a remote file system ;-) > > ioctl was handled by having the client "know" exactly what > each ioctl "looked like", i.e. it

Re: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-21 Thread rbnsw-plan9
--- On Tue, 21/6/11, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: ... >> Um, does v9fs remote Linux devices? I find it hard to >> imagine it would remote ioctls but it makes sense *nix to >> *nix. >> > > Depends on how you configure it.  There is a nodevmap > option to the v9fs mount which will instruct it to jus

[9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)

2011-06-11 Thread rbnsw-plan9
--- On Wed, 8/6/11, I wrote in part: > I am old enough to remember RFS the Remote File Sharing > Protocol on SVR4 that offered access to remote devices, but > I don't have that and I'm not aware of whether there are any > distributed file  protocols freely available for *nix > that do that. Um,

[9fans] Living with Plan 9

2011-06-07 Thread rbnsw-plan9
inux user binary emulation and X11 available. Is it sufficient to set up a Linux environment on Plan 9 including all the niceties offered by Linux modern distribution? Does this completely defeat the purpose of using Plan9 in the first place ? If it makes sense, I'd appreciate some gu

[9fans] Can't compile kernel

2010-02-01 Thread jorge-plan9
Hello! In parallel to the old Laptops i have installed Plan9 now on an ACP mini motherboard. Did not work out, until i found the Eric Qanstroms 9atom.iso - a Big thank you to Erik. Why would it be that this ISO not mentioned in the installation instructions on the Plan9 wiki...? Next step

[9fans] Just one piece o' help.

2010-01-11 Thread plan9
Greets all. If I may please, i'm a plan9 newbie. Don't know a thing about writing code or programming, nor do I know anything about networking other than what dhcp does for me. Thusly, i'm just a "user". I enjoy figuring out everything I can on my own when possible, h

Re: [9fans] Announcing: iosrv for persistent rc sessions and 9gridchan.org

2009-07-10 Thread plan9 grid
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > iosrv sounds neat. > > if you want a challenge, i would like to see the gui version, > something along the lines of inferno's drawmux, > which would be more work but also more broadly applicable. > http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/2/drawmux.h

Re: [9fans] 3c509b troubles

2008-08-29 Thread plan9
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:40:29PM -0500, michael block wrote: > > from what i can tell by gleaning the 9fans archives, the 3c509b is > quite a troublesome card. i found rumors of a dos utility that would > convince the card to change its port and irq. i think this leaves me > with two questions