Re: [9fans] Re: FOIA request?

> As far as I know Plan 9 was never used on the "other side of the fence" > (i.e., in secret) at los alamos. If it was in secret, would you know about it? I know, if you told me you'd have to kill me ... -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

Lucio - > BTW, I miss SSH a lot more often than I miss a browser when using > legacy Plan 9. Do you mean using Plan 9 as a ssh server, or client? I haven't tried server mode lately, but I use it often as a client with current linux and mac hosts with no trouble. Have you applied the 2018

[9fans] Re: FOIA request?

As far as I know Plan 9 was never used on the "other side of the fence" (i.e., in secret) at los alamos. It was always a research and exploratory project, and the LANL website related to Plan 9 was maintained by volunteers. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

[9fans] FOIA request?

This is interesting: *"Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:* *Records, emails, memos and reports relating to or mentioning the operating system Plan 9 from Bell Labs"*

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

BTW, I miss SSH a lot more often than I miss a browser when using legacy Plan 9. It keeps being what I would port from 9front immediately if I simply had the skills, the time and the persistence. There are one or two more things that may only pop up once caffeine has had its impact on my rather

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

On 11/24/19, Ori Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:34:32 +0200, Lucio De Re > wrote: > >> We just got a mouthful from sl and you about the lack of explanation >> for the state of the various plan 9 "distributions". It all smacks of >> expecting Da Vinci to update the Mona Lisa because

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 12:32 PM wrote: > > This is a good idea. Let me know how do you want to proceed. > > I will be busy working on other systems until December, > but when I get back, I'll just make the chages to the > wiki. If it's not editable, I'll email a patch to the > 9fans list.

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:34:32 +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > We just got a mouthful from sl and you about the lack of explanation > for the state of the various plan 9 "distributions". It all smacks of > expecting Da Vinci to update the Mona Lisa because somebody would > prefer a high-rise

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

9fans, First let me agree that 9legacy.org is the best destination for this thread, is there a living “vanilla" Plan9. And by “vanilla” I’m talking about what was released and maintained by AT / Lucent / Alcatel, to the end, on January 2015. I applaud the strategy of

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

On 19Nov24:0830-0800, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > >> The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io. It > >> doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015. > > > > Please look more closely: > > > > cpu% srv -n 9p.io sources /n/sources > > Usually, that's not what people mean when

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

> This is a good idea. Let me know how do you want to proceed. I will be busy working on other systems until December, but when I get back, I'll just make the chages to the wiki. If it's not editable, I'll email a patch to the 9fans list. > 9p.io is a mirror of the former Bell Labs website. >

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

> Actually, you know what, I should put my money > where my mouth is. Would there be objections to > me going through and fixing the links in the > wiki so they point to 9p.io? This is a good idea. Let me know how do you want to proceed. > Is there anyone who would be comfortable explaining > to

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

>> The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io. It >> doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015. > > Please look more closely: > > cpu% srv -n 9p.io sources /n/sources Usually, that's not what people mean when they say 'site'. It's good to see patches being posted, but for

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

ok, that is undeniably activity. now i'm giving an even more *horrible* metric of activity, to defend our confusion at least slightly. 9front activity during the same period: hg log|sed -n '1,/Mar 18.*2016/p'|grep changeset|wc -l 2282 here i give only the count of commits, and hope somebody will

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

> The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io. It > doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015. Please look more closely: cpu% srv -n 9p.io sources /n/sources post... cpu% ls -lrt /n/sources/patch/*/files|tail -24 --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 fstsys 160 Mar 18 2016