Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-26 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: I put some historic papers and distribution images (copyright permitting) on http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/historic, and I believe uriel has more on http://www.cat-v.org All the historical papers I have

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Tuson
On Oct 19, 7:06 pm, 23h...@googlemail.com (hiro) wrote: If this is peace I will not soon all of you to blow the whistle on the ss, also why do you all secretly in the basement with the white rabbit contagious! It is FORBIDDEN and a shame for my country! What the hell is this, bad poetry?

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Tuson
On Oct 19, 11:22 am, lu...@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re) wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:02:22AM +, Mark Tuson wrote: Steve, would you be willing to share copies of the demo discs? Which architecture do they use? I just want to play with something ancient as well as modern, then I'll

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-20 Thread Julius Schmidt
On 20 October 2010 11:44, Mark Tuson markfptu...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 19, 7:06 pm, 23h...@googlemail.com (hiro) wrote: If this is peace I will not soon all of you to blow the whistle on the ss, also why do you all secretly in the basement with the white rabbit contagious! It is FORBIDDEN

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-20 Thread hiro
Of course google translation (or something worse) converts this garbage. You mean automatically? That's evil.

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Tuson
On Sep 28, 1:30 am, st...@quintile.net (Steve Simon) wrote: the iso on the bell labs site is built nightly so if you have that you have the up-to-date source. I wouldn't expect there will be a fifth edition as most of the plan9 team from bell labs now work at google. Having said this it

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-19 Thread Lucio De Re
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:02:22AM +, Mark Tuson wrote: Steve, would you be willing to share copies of the demo discs? Which architecture do they use? I just want to play with something ancient as well as modern, then I'll feel like I have a better feel for the system. I can't imagine

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-19 Thread Steve Simon
/n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/* there is some other stuff on there about the early releases which might be of interest. I have a copy of the 2nd edition cdrom, but that is still under copywrite so I cannot give you a copy unless you can supply me with a valid license serial

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-19 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Lucio De Re lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:02:22AM +, Mark Tuson wrote: Steve, would you be willing to share copies of the demo discs? Which architecture do they use? I just want to play with something ancient as well as

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-19 Thread hiro
Wenn hier nicht bald Ruhe ist werd ich euch alle an die ss verpfeifen, auch was ihr da alles mit dem weissen Hasen im Keller heimlich ansteckt! Das ist VERBOTEN und eine Schande fuer das Vaterland!

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Tuson
On Sep 20, 12:59 pm, st...@quintile.net (Steve Simon) wrote: Playing with it and reading the manual (which I printed off in its entirety at my college's library), I notice that it hasn't been updated for eight years or so. So I'm curious; is Plan 9, Fourth Edition going to be the last? Or

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-09-27 Thread jake
I've tried pull (copied pull from Glenda's account to mine) but it didn't work. Can't remember the exact error message, but it couldn't find the files, apparently. Even after I'd spent ages figuring out how to do networking. Is there a no way to update from a source other than the 'net? Like

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-09-27 Thread Steve Simon
the iso on the bell labs site is built nightly so if you have that you have the up-to-date source. I wouldn't expect there will be a fifth edition as most of the plan9 team from bell labs now work at google. Having said this it might happen, it depends on the priorities inside lucent-alcatel.

[9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Tuson
Hi, I've just started playing with Plan 9 on a little machine I've fitted up as a laboratory, alongside OpenBSD and v7x86. Playing with it and reading the manual (which I printed off in its entirety at my college's library), I notice that it hasn't been updated for eight years or so. So I'm

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-09-20 Thread Steve Simon
Playing with it and reading the manual (which I printed off in its entirety at my college's library), I notice that it hasn't been updated for eight years or so. So I'm curious; is Plan 9, Fourth Edition going to be the last? Or is there a Fifth Edition on its way at some point? A common