> 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
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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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,
Is there anybody out there using Plan 9 as their primary operating system for
typical user tasks such as web browsing, word processing etc.
I'm shopping for a new operating system for my trailing edge hardware, and my
heart and my head cannot agree on how much effort I should devote into adopting
