[9fans] Raspberry Pi Inferno OS Native beta1 release!

Hi Plan9/Inferno folks! I am happy to announce the beta release of Inferno OS port to Raspberry Pi. Finally it is the state when wm/wm can be executed. There are some important points reached for this stage: 1. Mouse driver 2. Working wm/wm 3. Default memory split 240/16 4. A lot of small fixes an

[9fans] New /prog idea

Just idea, but seriously, why cannot do something like this: # cat /prog/new > $id # cat /dis/ls.dis > /prog/$id/dis # echo "/" > /prog/$id/cwd # echo «Running» > /prog/$id/status Not to do it which echo/cat, but to have remote access to /prog/new

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

On 05/05/2014 03:06 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > nemo's kernels What is the nemo kernel? by the way signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile

On 05/06/2014 05:24 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > The question is not why does Plan 9 compile so quickly, is what > catastrophe happened in Unix making everything so slow and large. Well, you know there is a lot of noise for linux kernel about keeping it compatible for even very old versions of app

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi Inferno OS Native beta1 release!

/2014 01:30 AM, Oleksandr Iakovliev wrote: > Hi Plan9/Inferno folks! > > I am happy to announce the beta release of Inferno OS port to Raspberry Pi. > Finally it is the state when wm/wm can be executed. > There are some important points reached for this stage: > 1. Mouse driver >

Re: [9fans] OT: clive

On 2014-05-23 13:54 , Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > and includes its new weird file protocol, named zx. Not sure I have seen some info about "zx". What is the protocol? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [9fans] Brasil

Good question, it looks interesting, I also had intention to check inferno on parallela board On 2014-07-18 03:27 , Shane Morris wrote: > Hello 9fans, > > I've been doing some research, and come across Brasil, which, if I've > got this right, was a co-operating system minimal Inferno layer used

[9fans] Inferno-rpi-0.3 release

Releasing *Inferno-rpi-0.3* Changes: * Enabled JIT * Included recent updated of Inferno-Os * Memory split 240/16 * devcons is added Download: * https://bitbucket.org/infpi/inferno-rpi/downloads/inferno-rpi-0.3.zip Installation: 1. Download latest zip package from https://bitbucket.org/infpi/i

[9fans] Inferno-rpi-0.4 release

Releasing *Inferno-rpi-0.4* Changes: * Significant performance improvement due to fixed error in process scheduling/idle * Boot time is about ONE second :) Download: * https://bitbucket.org/infpi/inferno-rpi/downloads/inferno-rpi-0.4.zip Installation: 1. Download latest zip package from https://

[9fans] Releasing Inferno-rpi-0.5

Releasing *Inferno-rpi-0.5* Changes: * Fixed wrong calculatons of memory pool sizes. * Support of Pi-1 models with 512MB RAM. * Update of sources from 9pi project: usbdwc, emmc, etherusb. * Added uartmini module from 9pi. * Use Mntgen by default for /n /n/local /n/remote * Boot to kernel-nogui.bin

Re: [9fans] drawterm on osx lion?

I may suggest that you are still able to compile with CFLAGS like -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk Where sdk 10.6 is taken from Xcode 3.x (Xcode 3.x had a set of sdks in /Developer/SDKs to distinguish between target osx versions) Also Xcode4 has this sdk available in: /Applications/Xcode.

Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

Hi, I am waiting for my RaspPi to start some cracking, but meanwhile you can have a look at http://kernelnomicon.org/ which is illustrating the progress for RPi to boot FreeBSD. It provides useful bunch of info about booting process that RPi uses - can be a very good starting point. On 2012-07-16

Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

On 2012-07-17 21:16 , erik quanstrom wrote: >> Actually it doesn't have to be 9p. It can be something >> simpler. > you should read the iwp9 papers! > > - erik > by the way, are there papers/slides from 6th(2011)? haven't seen them signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations?

On 2012-07-26 09:33 , Richard Miller wrote: >>> We've got some budget left for hardware, so I'm looking for a server >>> suitable for running Plan 9, preferably as good as I can get for about >>> $3000-5000. > You could build a 140-processor raspberry pi cluster for $4900, leaving > $100 in the bud

Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop

On 2012-10-18 11:03 , Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote: >> Greetings comrades. >> >> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins >> wrote: >>> This says a lot, rather nicely: >>> >>> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html >>> >>> Havi

Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop

On 2012-10-18 18:52 , erik quanstrom wrote: >> A "well working browser" is an OS these days. A bit of a dilemma that. ;-) > you overestimate how complicated an os needs to be. > > - erik > Browsers are on the dark side - they have cookies

Re: [9fans] Acme: fonts

On 2013-12-11 19:45 , Blake McBride wrote: > The problem is that the fonts are low-res and pixilated (when compared > to almost any other program on the Mac). (I think I saw the same > problem under Linux.) You can turn the pixilation in the advantage by using Terminus font - one of my favorites

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

On 2013-12-15 18:05 , Blake McBride wrote: > In spite of some really great ideas, I think we'd all agree that > Plan-9 has no real future. I would not agree about that. If you would try to have a look at coming future tendencies, you would be notified that there is coming what is now named as "int

Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue

On 12/19/2013 11:59 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > On 19 December 2013 06:07, Bakul Shah > wrote: > > I suppose making atime, mtime of type struct timespec would > break too much including 9p? > > > It's unfortunate that the times in the protocol have low resolu

Re: [9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

Only 3 nested coils. Should be Fractal-like to include infinity amount of 9! On 2014-01-03 23:07 , phineas.p...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm tinkering with an alternative Plan 9 logo. > > Any comments or suggestions? Is there even any interest in something > like this? > > http://pdf.m

Re: [9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

On 2014-01-03 23:40 , erik quanstrom wrote: >> Should be Fractal-like to include infinity amount of 9! > does anyone feel like debugging an infinite os? > > - erik > yep, os with infinity(8 rotated half-pi)++ = unity for every housewife :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature