[9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9

2015-07-24 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/harvey-an-operating-system-with-plan-9-s-shadow-3081414e5f0b I'm not affiliated with this whatsoever; I just saw it on Reddit and found it interesting. I found this part particularly neat: > We are working in ANSI POSIX environment to have most of

Re: [9fans] arm64 port?

2015-07-24 Thread Prof Brucee
ditto On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: > i just ordered one of these and am wondering if anyone is working on a > Plan 9 port: > > https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/dragonboard-410c > > >

[9fans] arm64 port?

2015-07-24 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i just ordered one of these and am wondering if anyone is working on a Plan 9 port: https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/dragonboard-410c

[9fans] Stick

2015-07-24 Thread Prof Brucee
Anyone with P9 experience on the Intel Compute Stick (aka STK1A32WFC)? It's a lot of PC for such a small cost and form factor. I think it was only released in oz last week. I have ordered one. brucee

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Prof Brucee : I just quoted cat-v - shoot me. ONE OF US

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Prof Brucee
I just quoted cat-v - shoot me. brucee On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 2015-07-24 11:52 GMT-07:00 Charles Forsyth : > > > > On 24 July 2015 at 18:08, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > >> > >> doesn't remember given > >> that this would have been over 40 years ago. > > > > > >

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 24 July 2015 at 20:20, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > But POSIX remembers and indeed insists on minutiae from 40 years ago! > > If only we could all be more like POSIX. I didn't mean it as a good thing.

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2015-07-24 11:52 GMT-07:00 Charles Forsyth : > > On 24 July 2015 at 18:08, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >> >> doesn't remember given >> that this would have been over 40 years ago. > > > But POSIX remembers and indeed insists on minutiae from 40 years ago! If only we could all be more like POSIX.

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 24 July 2015 at 18:08, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > doesn't remember given > that this would have been over 40 years ago. > But POSIX remembers and indeed insists on minutiae from 40 years ago!

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> I would like to ask a very open question: has Linux with the release of 4.0 > finally jumped the shark. i had to go look. dynamic core patching... how retro?!!

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2015-07-24 5:05 GMT-07:00 Prof Brucee : > Look what I started. And All That Clever Code ... > > Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by > definition, not smart enough to debug it. > > — Brian

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jul 23 22:12:56 PDT 2015, prof.bru...@gmail.com wrote: > You are not helping at all. We know that Peter has done *everything*. > > brucee > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:49 PM, wrote: > > > http://9front.org/img/pjwshark.png so it's peter. the most interesting man in the world. - erik

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Prof Brucee
I started this thread. And all that clever code is being dynamically replaced as we speak. brucee On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Ingo Krabbe wrote: > > Look what I started. And All That Clever Code ... > > Maybe I'm dumb but, where should I look at "all that clever code" and the > things you

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Ingo Krabbe
> Look what I started. And All That Clever Code ... Maybe I'm dumb but, where should I look at "all that clever code" and the things you "started"?

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Prof Brucee
Look what I started. And All That Clever Code ... Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. — Brian W. Kernighan

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Ingo Krabbe
Actually not all bugs are fixed, some are introduced as a feature http://intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/space.html#hawk > On 24 July 2015 at 04:54, Prof Brucee wrote: > >> has Linux with the release of 4.0 finally jumped the shark. > > > Since it's called "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep"

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 24 July 2015 at 04:54, Prof Brucee wrote: > has Linux with the release of 4.0 finally jumped the shark. Since it's called "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep", I thought I'd ask a celebrity what he thought of it. The response was much as I'd expected: http://goo.gl/ZefDFV Others simply said that "it was b

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Ingo Krabbe
I don't think that anyone on this list really got what you want/-ed. At least I didn't. But maybe I already jumped the shark too. Regards ingo > I sent a message to this list a short while ago suggesting that interested > parties contact me about my startup. Sorry if it was too cryptic. Consid

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Prof Brucee
I sent a message to this list a short while ago suggesting that interested parties contact me about my startup. Sorry if it was too cryptic. Consider the message decrypted. brucee On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Tiago Natel wrote: > Make a random commit and call it 4.0? Yes, I think that it ju

Re: [9fans] Has Linux jumped the shark?

2015-07-24 Thread Tiago Natel
Make a random commit and call it 4.0? Yes, I think that it jumped the shark as well as all competitors (BSD. win, osx). But unfortunate we don't have any other good production-ready choice at the moment. My hope is that someone is hard working on a new better tech for the next 20 years. But I kno