Brantley Coile <brantleyco...@me.com> wrote: >We haven’t stopped using it, but then again, we don’t talk much on the >list. > >I’ve been using Plan 9 since 1995, before that I only used it at the >Labs. I’ll be using it when I assume room temperature. > >We still run Ken’s file server that Erik modified into a diskless file >server using our AoE appliances behind it. I develop on Plan 9 >exclusively. And we use it as a distributed operating system running on >about a dozen machines. > >I suspect that we might the be only ones. > > Brantley > >> On Aug 23, 2016, at 2:06 PM, stanley lieber <s...@9front.org> wrote: >> >> Don Bailey <don.bai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Plan 9 shall never die. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:21 AM, David du Colombier ><0in...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> I see from the archive (http://marc.info/?l=9fans) there were no >>>> messages at >>>>> all in June, maybe everyone was tired out after the 203 messages >in >>> May? >>>> >>>> The 9fans mailing list was down from approximately June 1 to July >25. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David du Colombier >>>> >>>> >> >> People just stop using it. >> >> sl >> >>
I meant the people busy not posting on this mailing list. I run Plan 9 on my personal workstation, and we serve all the 9front stuff (file shares, mailing lists, websites -- everything but the mercurial repository) from Plan 9. The culture of this mailing list has always been running UNIX and sometimes talking about Plan 9. First because Plan 9 was not generally available, and now because macbooks and the web. Even the authors of Plan 9 quit research to build websites for a living. They declared a Plan 9 free zone in their own computing lives over a decade ago. To be fair, many people need to do things at a given moment that Plan 9 cannot be made to do without undertaking an enormous and likely futile effort. One of the reasons the project stalled is that it is too difficult to keep up with the demands of the outside world. I agree, it sucks. Are you hiring, by any chance? sl
