On 12/3/2012 12:51 AM, EBo wrote: > On Dec 2 2012 10:26 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> ...> >> Curiously, Plan 9 (the OS from AT&T, not the movie from Ed Wood!) has >> recently been reemerging in the Internet consciousness. I don't think >> Plan 9 is the answer, but the outside-the-box thinking that went into >> its design is a model for the thinking I believe could emerge in >> LinuxCNC too as we see new opportunities in the ARM world. In >> diversity >> there is strength. > Kent, > > I am curious what else you have seen regarding Plan 9. You may not > know, but the Plan 9 files system protocol has been in the main kernel > tree for some time, and various other bits and bobs are being slowly > ported from Plan 9 to Linux. I will have to check into to if the user > defined name spaces have been ported yet -- those are useful. If you > are interested in looking robotics using 9p take a look at > Styx-on-a-Brick. > > BEo -- >
I apologize if I misled (usual excuse...I was tired). I admire the Plan 9 project-eers for daring to suggest that Unix is not the holy grail and exploring new paradigms that preserve much of the goodness of Unix. They invented Unix; they should know. I see that as metaphor for how I hope we proceed with LinuxCNC. On the other hand, I wasn't proposing Plan 9 as a concrete solution for us. (Nor do I consider its lack of market share to be a strike against it.) Thanks for the pointer to Styx-on-a-Brick. Fun stuff. My original message was triggered by seeing a hackaday item about someone porting Plan 9 to his RPi. I forget where else I saw Plan 9 mentioned recently too. Finally, who is this guy "BEo" and what has he done with our friend EBo? Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
