Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: if folks have a problem with 9front it is not technical.  folks don't get that far.  it is because 9front appears to have defined itself in criticism of people (not code).  and further defined itself by some

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread erik quanstrom
9front seems to me to define itself as: having fun while getting useful stuff done. With an emphasis in *fun* and in not taking anything too seriously, while one the technical side favoring simplicity and things that work. This might not be exactly the same original Plan 9 values, but seems

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread Jacob Todd
The constitution and the gettysburg address are in there, too. On Nov 26, 2011 6:51 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: 9front seems to me to define itself as: having fun while getting useful stuff done. With an emphasis in *fun* and in not taking anything too seriously, while

Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

2011-11-26 Thread Ruben Schuller
To throw my experiences in: I've installed bell labs plan9 in qemu-kvm. What really sped up the installation was having the disk image in a tmpfs, otherwise the copying to the hard disk took hours. With tmpfs it was finished in some minutes. After moving this image to the harddisk the plan9

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:40 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: 9front seems to me to define itself as: having fun while getting useful stuff done. With an emphasis in *fun* and in not taking anything too seriously, while one the technical side favoring simplicity and things that

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread Lucio De Re
uriel, what you say would make sense if the jokes didn't include putting mein kampf in /lib. The constitution and the gettysburg address are in there, too. Is this balanced by having The Diary of Ann Frank in there, too? ++L

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread cinap_lenrek
no, but the communist manifesto ;) -- cinap

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread cinap_lenrek
/lib/mainkampf is part of an ongoing project to make venti sha-1 hashes easy to remember by translating them into hitler-speeches. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

2011-11-26 Thread Jens Staal
On 11/27/11 01:14, Ruben Schuller wrote: To throw my experiences in: I just managed to install 9front in virtualbox on my Arch linux x86_64 laptop (intel (Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz), 2GiB RAM). I first tried with the Bell labs image which booted nicely from CD but after

Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

2011-11-26 Thread John Floren
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Jens Staal staal1...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/27/11 01:14, Ruben Schuller wrote: To throw my experiences in: I just managed to install 9front in virtualbox on my Arch linux x86_64 laptop (intel (Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz), 2GiB RAM). I