Why Plan 9?
Because on one of these days some big company (hint: where are the ex Bell
Labsers working with a very much Plan 9 / inferno / Limbo insipired new
programming language) adopts the Plan 9 / Inferno in a a more or less varied
incarnation. I could imagine Android having a new kernel not
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:45:02 +, Bruce Ellis wrote:
Very succinct, and better than I could do 'til the coffee kicks in.
You could have pointed out that the entire source tree is smaller than
the gcc manual.
WAT!?!
Ahem.. pardon my manners please, but this caught me completely of guard.
If I recall correctly, Ape is a complete POSIX implementation
including Bourne shell, C libraries, etc. I think there are also ports
of some of the GNU extended utilities as well.
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 08:33 +, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
Is there already an implemented.. POSIX compatibility
For any use-case I personally care about (and probably any
workstation/server use case you care about as well,) the Linux kernel
with the GNU userspace will blow anything out of the water, both in
performance and usability. If you don't recognize this you're sticking
your head in the sand. I know
2010/10/12 Max E maxxed...@comcast.net:
For any use-case I personally care about (and probably any
workstation/server use case you care about as well,) the Linux kernel
with the GNU userspace will blow anything out of the water, both in
performance and usability.
I don't think the GNU
Is there already an implemented.. POSIX compatibility layer, library, or
something? Hopefully, something that is very, very thin??
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.pdf
this will allow you to recompile nice clean ansi posix code.
compiling gnu code may require more work as much of it is
There's APE, the Ansi Posix Environment.
On Oct 12, 2010 4:40 AM, Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:45:02 +, Bruce Ellis wrote:
Very succinct, and better than I could do 'til the coffee kicks in.
You could have pointed out that the entire source tree is
On Oct 12, 9:21Â am, porttik...@gmail.com (Anssi Porttikivi) wrote:
we really do not need protocols above the network layer, but HTTP, SMTP,
DNS, SOAP, IIOP, IMAP, IRC, SSH, SSL, TP, SNMP and hundred others can all be
replaced by remote file access.
This sounds pretty interesting.
You may
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Max E maxxed...@comcast.net wrote:
If I recall correctly, Ape is a complete POSIX implementation
including Bourne shell, C libraries, etc. I think there are also ports
of some of the GNU extended utilities as well.
Not to mention you can get firefox to run
the twitter example you gave is perhaps too simple, could the tweets
not just be text written to a publicly writable file. the users could connect
with 9p but as the user none son they will need no auth.
better examples of the everything is a file aproach are wikifs (a file server
which
prvides
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:27:45 +, Steve Simon wrote:
Is there already an implemented.. POSIX compatibility layer, library,
or something? Hopefully, something that is very, very thin??
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.pdf
this will allow you to recompile nice clean ansi posix code.
hi,
if i am right, about a year back ron mentioned plan9 is being ported
to beagleboard. any update on this? did geoff mention in his talk
yesterday (i assume he is also involved in this work)?
thanks
dharani
It was mentioned in Geoff's talk yesterday, I don't recall what was said
though. I think something about vga. It's archived on livestream.com/iwp9
On Oct 12, 2010 3:36 PM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan vdhar...@gmail.com
wrote:
hi,
if i am right, about a year back ron mentioned plan9 is being
hi jacob,
thanks. i did see that video but didn't complete it since it either
got stuck or had too many ads. i will go thru the video again.
regards
dharani
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote:
It was mentioned in Geoff's talk yesterday, I don't recall what
watch this first
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzKj-1HaKw
/sys/src/9/beagle
I think it works but have not run it for some time.
On this note ... anybody figured out FTDI and OSX? I have no serial to
my ARMs any more.
ron
My latest solution was to run a Plan 9 VM and use it :-). But no :-(
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
/sys/src/9/beagle
I think it works but have not run it for some time.
On this note ... anybody figured out FTDI and OSX? I have no serial to
my ARMs
Found the problem. OpenRD uses a non-standard 5 pin microusb
connector, and I had the wrong cable. I keep forgetting the vagaries
of the usb sub-standard.
ron
18 matches
Mail list logo
