Re: [9fans] any updates on go for plan9/arm?

2018-02-11 Thread Conor Williams
Happy neuo year bouz Kotw On Friday, January 1, 2016, wrote: > > I just went through the patch, aside from minor cosmetic > > changes, I think it's ready for inclusion into Go 1.7 if > > all.bash passes. The author just has to split it up into > > CLs and push to Gerrit for review. > > That is

Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-11 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 12:20 AM, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > While it's in no way a Unix, many won't even consider it a Plan 9 > system. Still for anyone interested: http://jehanne.io on principle, i very much like jehanne's decoupling policy. it was the growth of excessive coupling between software

Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-11 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
> Out of curiosity, what's your use case for the NIX kernel? Use case?? My use case for NIX, and Plan 9 in general, is basically "fun" and "curiosity". For my day job I run AIX, IBM i, and Windows when I have to (which is a lot) :) From: 9fans-boun...@9fa

Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-11 Thread Giacomo Tesio
2018-02-12 0:48 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Huntsman : > Or, if one wants NIX but to stay a little closer to the original > distribution, are there options, or is Harvey the only way? Out of curiosity, what's your use case for the NIX kernel? @Lyndon: https://bitbucket.org/forsyth/plan9-9k @Rui: Jehanne

Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-11 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
> 9atom and 9front are both actively maintained. It seems like 9atom is not actually actively maintained any longer. I hope Erik sees this and refutes me, though! I was aware of Harvey, Jehanne, and plan9-9k, though I didn't mention them because I wasn't sure how "mainstream" they were, or if

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

2018-02-11 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Not bad, not bad... now what aren't you willing to admit to? :) haha I also have two different copies of the 3rd Edition plan9.9gz, one from 2000 and one from 2001, plus a handful of patch 9gz files, and one floppy image that I can't get to boot. I have printed 3rd Edition manuals but Charles

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

2018-02-11 Thread Steve Simon
ok, i spike too soon what i have (and am willing to admit to :-): ed 2 cd and floppy set ed 3 cd, box and manuals - i don’t believe there was a 3rd floppy, perhaps Charles can confirm? there was a demo floppy for the 1st and 2nd edition. i had the demo for the 1st but can no longer find it. S

Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Forsyth's Plan-9k had some development in mid 2017. Where did that go? I remember there were some changes there I was quite interested in, but I lost the reference to the repo source before I had a chance to do anything with the updates.

Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-11 Thread Rui Carmo
Jehanne is something I’ve been keeping track of, in hopes that rio gets nicer defaults. You should write more about it. :) I’ve been toying with the notion of hacking a nicer (for me) visual theme, but lack of time prevailed. But I will move my Pi to 9front as soon as possible... R. > On 11 Fe

Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-11 Thread Giacomo Tesio
To my knowledge this is the set of active projects based on Plan 9: 9atom and 9front are both actively maintained. Both stick strongly to the original Plan 9 from Bell Labs design. AFAIK, 9front introduce more innovations, both in kernel and in user space, but what make it unique is the #cat-v com