Re: [9fans] Cannot boot plan9

2014-03-21 Thread Alex Jordan
On Mar 17, 2014 3:34 PM, "erik quanstrom" wrote: > linux sata drivers can be harder to clone since so much of the work is done > in a series of generic layers. and they can take a while to digest. As an aside, why don't we have an architecture like this? (From your comment, I'm assuming we don't.

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread Alex Jordan
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Jeff Sickel wrote: > Git is the closest as it’s just C, > sort of: it’s a whole lot of code. But why would you want to > bring in “178K lines of *.[ch], 20K lines of shell scripts, 100K+ > lines of test scripts” and have to lug in the massive payload > of Python and P

Re: [9fans] What is Plan9 exactly?

2014-06-04 Thread Alex Jordan
On Jun 4, 2014 8:39 PM, "OMAR RADWAN" wrote: > I'm serious. I'm a Unix fan, I use BSD, Minix, Linux, and any unix-like OS I can get my hands on. Sadly, except, System V or HP-UX, or any UNIX. I read about Plan9 online, and it sounds like a great project. Though I do think that if this operating sy

[9fans] Installing from the live environment

2013-08-04 Thread Alex Jordan
ere's a way to start the installer from the live environment. Any ideas? I'm using an image from 7/30/13. Thanks, Alex Jordan

Re: [9fans] Python3 for Plan9

2013-08-16 Thread Alex Jordan
On Aug 16, 2013 8:22 PM, "Devyn Collier Johnson" wrote: > > > On 08/16/2013 05:52 PM, Jeff Sickel wrote: >> >> Just remember that there is a small mercurial dependency that's currently not >> fully tracked. Our patches to Selenic have started to be rolled in, but it may >> still take a few more d

[9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com downtime?

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Jordan
Anyone know why plan9.bell-labs.com/ is down? Yesterday I visited and it returned "object not found", but today it fails to load entirely and I get Firefox's "problem loading page" screen, due to a timeout. Just me? -Alex Jordan

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com downtime?

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Jordan
On Oct 9, 2013 10:07 AM, "Sergey Zhilkin" wrote: > > sources.cs.bell-labs.com and plan9.bell-labs.com are different machines, web is sux, not a way to get sources :) I was looking for the papers, not the sources :) And to be clear, I was talking about HTTP access, not 9P.

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com downtime?

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Jordan
On Oct 9, 2013 9:49 AM, "James A. Robinson" wrote: > > I certainly can't get to it via port 80, I get a timeout. > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Alex Jordan wrote: >> >> Anyone know why plan9.bell-labs.com/ is down? >> Yesterday I visited

[9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2013-12-30 Thread Alex Jordan
vered before, please accept my apologies. Thanks for your time, Alex Jordan

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2013-12-30 Thread Alex Jordan
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Alex Jordan wrote: > At this point, I need to choose between vanilla Plan 9 or one of the > flavors (9front or 9atom). There is also 9legacy, which I forgot about.

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-05 Thread Alex Jordan
On Mon Dec 30 21:03:24 EST 2013, alexander3223...@gmail.com wrote: > Basically, would you guys recommend I try the Bell Labs > distribution of Plan 9, 9front, or 9atom as my first installation? Since no one seems to have an opinion on this, I'm going with the Bell Labs distribution. We'll see how i

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-05 Thread Alex Jordan
oy -- it's been pretty fun so far! >> >> Patryk >> >> >> >>> On Jan 5, 2014, at 15:54, Alex Jordan wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon Dec 30 21:03:24 EST 2013, alexander3223...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> Basically, would you guys recommend I tr

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-05 Thread Alex Jordan
On Jan 5, 2014, at 11:39 PM, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > instead of randomly switching distributoins, why not investigate > what hardware is actually supported and install such hardware? If you'll read my email again, you'll note that I mentioned this. I don't want to buy a new piece of har

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-07 Thread Alex Jordan
On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:29 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > the output of "pci | grep net" should be enough. > > - erik term% pci | grep net 2.9.0: net 02.00.00 1282/9102 3 0:d801 256 1:feaffc00 256 term% Thanks, Erik. You've been very helpful and friendly. :) Alex