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From: Fariborz "Skip" Tavakkolian fst@rea...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Anyone still running plan9?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:39:26 -0700

At 01:41 PM 8/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, David Hogan wrote:
>
>> Michel Oosterhof wrote:
>> > cwr@cts.COM (Will Rose) writes:
>> > >Michel Oosterhof (kirth@cal...) wrote:
>> > >: Hello, to whoever might read this.  Is anyone still running plan9?
>> > >: Further more, is someone still working on the UNIX ports of several
>> > >: plan9 utilities? (the rc shell, the 9wm (8 1/2) window manager, etc?
>> 
>> I run Plan 9 at home.  The company I work for uses Plan 9.  `<gasp!>'
>> I think we're the only one ;-)
>> 
>> > >Me.  And I don't think I've seen a post in this group for the last
>> > >3-4 months - I assumed the distribution was screwed.
>> 
>> Well, it used to be bidirectionally gatewayed with the 9fans list;
>> I don't think this is happening any more.  I'm cc-ing this to 9fans
>> for comment/elucidation.
>> 
>> > 9wm is a clone of 8 1/2, and runs on linux too, I'm using it at the
>> > moment. (1.2pre version).
>> 
>> I guess I should do another release of 9wm one of these days.  It's
>> been ``1.2pre'' for over a year now ;-)  I guess I should just say,
>> well, that _was_ 1.2, and here's 1.3.  Though, there aren't that
>> many changes that I've made -- a few bug fixes.  Might be time for
>> a ``maintenance release''.  I'm such a procrastinator...
>> 
>
>It really irks me a little that so many people want *nix ports of Plan 9's
>window manager, or editor, etc... but nobody wants to take the really
>great ideas.  WHy won't somebody take things like the namespacing stuff,
>the 9P and IL protocols, the fileserver/cpuserver/terminal concepts... all
>the good "internals" of Plan 9 and make an effort to bring those ideas
>into modern freeware *nix clones.  Merge it into Linux, or NetBSD, or
>HURD....   That would be a much more worthwhile effort.
>

No one does it, perhaps for the same reasons that compelled the Labs folk to
start with a clean slate.

>Brandon
>
>