Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread Lucio De Re
On 2/11/21, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > Quoth David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com>: >> 9legacy patches are available as "unified diff" format and >> are generated with "ape/diff -Nru". > > Alright, noted for the future. > Here's what I' ve been thinking about that may be worth sharing: I'd

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread ori
Quoth David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com>: > 9legacy patches are available as "unified diff" format and > are generated with "ape/diff -Nru". Alright, noted for the future. > Feel free to ping me again if I missed something you sent me. When I got git9 working on 9legacy, I backported a

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread David du Colombier
> > another question already, though a bit early for it... how are 9legacy > > patches generated? on 9front as far as I know everything is in > > mercurial and people use hg diff 9legacy patches are available as "unified diff" format and are generated with "ape/diff -Nru". I tend to prefer

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread ori
Quoth Eli Cohen : > > another question already, though a bit early for it... how are 9legacy > patches generated? on 9front as far as I know everything is in > mercurial and people use hg diff patch/create, as far as I know. The question is whether there is anyone willing or able to apply the

Re: [9fans] which Plan 9 am I running?

2021-02-10 Thread Richard Miller
> I am very grateful for Richard Miller's ready-made 9pi image. > ... > I have also read up a bit on 9legacy, 9front, etc. > > I wonder now which, if any, of these I am running. Good question. The 9pi image started out as pure Bell Labs 4th edition in a ready-to-use form for the Raspberry Pi.

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread Eli Cohen
well... I have a few questions already. I have heard that thorough scrutiny of dp9ik would be appreciated as Ori said, and hasn't really been done yet... beyond my capabilities, though. I have explored dp9ik a little bit, another document about it is this writeup:

[9fans] which Plan 9 am I running?

2021-02-10 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
I am very grateful for Richard Miller's ready-made 9pi image. When I first got to know about Plan 9 many years ago, there was only a single distribution of it I believe. I had assumed I was running something close to that distribution, with an updated kernel, but I have since been pleasantly

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread hiro
in my legislation churches devoted to glenda worshipping are considered sects. it would be great to be able and register in a country where this is possibly a church instead. I found another place where this is discussed https://old.reddit.com/r/plan9/comments/lgoz01/plan_9_foundation/ i approve

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
> We are pleased to announce the creation of the Plan 9 Foundation. This is excellent news. I am especially excited to see some familiar names in the signature (the familiarity is one-directional, partly from when I was lurking around Plan 9 lists back in the 2000s). Would be keen to learn how

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Kim Shrier
Great news. As soon as you work out the details, please announce on this list. I would like to become a member and donate $ as well. Kim -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355-Mb6dd15bd7b8303107fe97c4b

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
It is probably fair to say it's harder than setting up an organized church[*] or a Super PAC[**] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Perpetual_Exemption ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Super_PAC P.S. For those not familiar with US tax code, politics, or comedy shows: a Venn

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
It did not seem to be anything so nefarious. The IRS was not publicly stating their reasons and I don’t want to speculate about them too much, but it seemed to just be a pause while they figured out how to differentiate legitimate organizations from scam ones. > On Feb 10, 2021, at 10:35, Wes

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Wes Kussmaul
On 2/10/21 12:17 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:40:18PM -0800, Anthony Sorace wrote: More information can be found on our web site, http://p9f.org/. "That effort stalled, mainly due to the treatment of software-focused non-profit organizations under U.S. regulations at

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
We’re starting off with the prior years’ GSoC money. We haven’t yet pursued other funding avenues since there’s still a bunch of legal/tax things we have to finish first. > On Feb 10, 2021, at 10:24, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > you got other money sources lined up apart from gsoc? >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread hiro
you got other money sources lined up apart from gsoc? i don't know if this might open up some new avenues for those of us who have programming dayjobs but would rather quit those and make something more meaningful that isn't profit-driven and part of the usual IT industry. or what's the idea

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
The focus at that time (2009) was on getting a 501(c)3 org to accept the GSoC money after we were accepted that year. I talked to some folks doing similar things in other orgs and was advised that the IRS had stalled granting that to new software-focused non-profits. Since that main driver

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:40:18PM -0800, Anthony Sorace wrote: > > More information can be found on our web site, http://p9f.org/. > "That effort stalled, mainly due to the treatment of software-focused non-profit organizations under U.S. regulations at the time." What does this mean? khm

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Joseph Stewart
I would also like to support, so keep me posted on opportunities to support and join the foundation. Cheers y’all! On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 8:19 AM Marshall Conover wrote: > Same! Enjoyed helping out with iwp92020, happy to help further. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:07 AM Steve Simon wrote: >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Marshall Conover
Same! Enjoyed helping out with iwp92020, happy to help further. On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:07 AM Steve Simon wrote: > > How do we get involved in or become a member of the foundation? > > I too am interested in supporting plan9 in any form I can. > > -Steve -- Have a good day, Marshall

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread ori
Quoth Skip Tavakkolian : > no slight to the inventor of dp9ik, but has it been verified? It's using the SPAKE2 algorithm, which is fairly well analyzed. Here are a few starting points to read about it: https://www.lothar.com/blog/54-spake2-random-elements/

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
> How do we get involved in or become a member of the foundation? I too am interested in supporting plan9 in any form I can. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355-Mf8d4170c614f10a8bb00470f Delivery

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
> Thierry asked: > > One suggestion: add a link for donations. I, for one, when I can't > provide code to software I'm interested in (even remotely), try at > least to give some money. > Don asked: > > How do we get involved in or become a member of the foundation? Glad to hear there's

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
FWIW I recently extracted ssh/sshfs/libsec from 9front and applied them to richard miller's raspberry pi image. This was not too hard but the changes did extend further than I first expected. I could braindump what I did and it would form (I think) a very useful diff. Richard millers image is

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Don A. Bailey
How do we get involved in or become a member of the foundation? D > On Feb 10, 2021, at 2:41 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the creation of the Plan 9 Foundation. > > The Foundation exists to promote and further the development of Plan 9 and > related technologies

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:40:18PM -0800, Anthony Sorace wrote: > We are pleased to announce the creation of the Plan 9 Foundation. > > The Foundation exists to promote and further the development of Plan 9 and > related technologies for lightweight distributed systems. > > More

[9fans] Re: Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Anthony Martin
Anthony Sorace once said: > Collier Can *I* buy a vowel? Not this one but another, Here and on the site. Cheers, Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355-M99db8eabd2cbcc95399a1d53 Delivery options: