Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-24 Thread Adriano Verardo
Winston Kodogo wrote: Hey Adriano It seems as if the list is not totally moribund after all, even if these days people will insist on talking about Plan9 on it, rather than posting informative digressions about almost everything else. I hope you got at least some of the responses which your o

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-24 Thread Brantley Coile
Some general comments. It’s good to see it used in at least a few places. It’s too good a system to be the only one using it. But I will until providence completely forces me to do otherwise, which I don’t anticipate. I’m really lucky to be able to use the system, especially in the way it was

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-24 Thread Nickolas Peter
Hi Brantley, I am by no means an experienced developer or Plan 9 user, so I can hardly speak from the same experience level as most (I assume) of the posters on this list. I only recently found myself very interested in Plan 9, C, and embedded systems. As of now, I only run 9front as a learning en

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-24 Thread Brantley Coile
Nick, Coraid, Inc sold network storage systems that consisted of our software running on more or less stock Supermicro hardware. We invented the ATA-over-Ethernet block storage network protocol. We sold almost $100,000,000 worth of stuff, somewhere north of 10,000 units, all running Plan 9. I

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-24 Thread Nickolas Peter
Brantley, Wow, that's really impressive. Thanks for sharing. Would you say that Supermicro hardware supports Plan 9 well, or did it take a lot of hacking and driver development? I have a Supermicro 1U sitting in my uncles basement — I might go grab it and set it up as a fileserver. Nick On Wedne