Re: [9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-02-02 Thread sml
I would like to run 9legacy on OpenBSD as well. Unfortunately, I'm still learning and even though finding and ideally contributing solutions to such bugs is a distant goal of mine, my only current option is to run on 9front. In the wiki (https://wiki.9front.org/openbsd-vmm) it says:  "Since VMM

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-02-02 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022, at 7:22 PM, ron minnich wrote: > This one statement: "Berkeley stopped their distribution of BSD systems right after they were forced to remove the toolchain." is completely wrong. I just asked the people who were there, on TUHS, and they confirmed my memory: DARPA

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-02-02 Thread ron minnich
This one statement: "Berkeley stopped their distribution of BSD systems right after they were forced to remove the toolchain." is completely wrong. I just asked the people who were there, on TUHS, and they confirmed my memory: DARPA funding for BSD support ended in 1995, and that was probably the

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-02-02 Thread ori
Quoth Wes Kussmaul : > > Hiro, you have absolutely hit the nail on the head. > > So, how do you add rationality and reliability to the > dpkg-app/play-store idea? > > Answer: emulate the ways this has been done for centuries in the > physical world. I'd like to think we've progressed past

Re: [9fans] Create HTML pages

2022-02-02 Thread Charles Forsyth
> I don't know whether pandoc runs > on Plan 9. It is Haskell, so I suspect not. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te71ff4b45d15900f-M78a822fd2c0d5283486b02f4 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] Create HTML pages

2022-02-02 Thread Ben Hancock
On 2/1/22 08:20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: Quoth Ben Hancock : This is not Plan 9 specific Are you implying it runs on plan 9 at all? You're right - I should have clarified: I don't know whether pandoc runs on Plan 9. I thought I would suggest just in case OP was looking at tools from

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-02-02 Thread Wes Kussmaul
On 2/1/22 17:47, hiro wrote: I believe that David is right that it was a combination of running on really low-end hardware (in the early days, Torvalds accepted patches for just about anything), and a similarly low barrier to entry (others elsewhere have quipped about having to appease, "the

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-02-02 Thread hiro
as a trackpoint fanatic i can tell you: no, i can't sweep as easily as with a physical mouse. but if a physical mouse is 10/10, and a smartphone is 1/10, then a touchpad is 3/10 and a trackpoint is 8/10 for my purposes. the only thing that makes this more steep is gaming: there the mouse is much

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-02-02 Thread Oleg Finkelshteyn
On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, at 04:25, Ben Hancock wrote: > Do you find you're able to sweep lines as easily using it in acme as with a > physical mouse? can't really say: i'm not a heavy acme user, and i haven't had a mouse in years. shinobi does feel pretty close to a thinkpad, so you should be able