Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
ying to demand of the 9front project, and create a nice home for the sorts of people whose primary qualifications are that they like to watch and they've been watching for decades. khm ---------- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f2

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 02:22:01PM +, Samuel Reader via 9fans wrote: > The 2nd draft is out. I've made some corrections as mentioned by others, and > I have added those who have helped to the acknowledgements. This draft is > only for those that are interested in the conten

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Samuel Reader via 9fans
t on linkedin >> sounds mainly like a big "fuck you" towards 9front, not a fair answer >> given the technical contributions brought here by others. >> >> Again, please send patches, not propaganda. > > [9fans](https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest) / 9fans / see &g

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Samuel Reader via 9fans
It is only a first draft, and it is not a finished product. I'll correct the mistakes found. Thank you for the kind feedback. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Friday, May 17th, 2024 at 9:31 PM, qwx via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > On Fri May 17 13:33:21 +0200

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread qwx via 9fans
4K monitors, ensures crisp and clear visuals. Multi-Monitor Configurations: Improved multi-monitor support allows users to extend their desktop across multiple screens seamlessly, enhancing productivity and usability. Chapter 2: Networking [...] ------ 9fan

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread samuel.reader via 9fans
Many user programs have seen enhancements and bug fixes. Notable examples include the acme editor, which received improvements from Plan9port, and the git suite, which has been updated to handle modern workflows more effectively." ------ 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread samuel.reader via 9fans
Someone asked about the differences between 9front and 9legacy. This first draft provides a brief overview. https://link.storjshare.io/s/jx6tw46kfxskld45ussjek46ccpq/revitalizing-project/RevitalizingPlan9.pdf -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

Re: [9fans] RISC-V SoC available in Europe?

2024-05-16 Thread Julien Blanchard via 9fans
This presentation by Geoff Collyer "Plan 9 on 64-bit RISC-V" describes the work that has been done and mentions some hardware too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOg6UzSss2A ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/gr

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
of people I was describing, there's not much I can do about that, I guess. khm ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tad3dc0c93039a7d2-M7a9282fa0e9032a09d8324c6 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
t you, Don" did you fail to parse? What other entire clauses in my email messages have you failed to parse? This is a concerning development. khm ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tad3dc0c93039a7d2-M25dc0e8c9d6985413fd

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
bug reports seriously! If that had been the prevailing attitude on 9fans some years back, 9front probably wouldn't exist, much less exist without an in-tree Fossil. But your "point to the code" demand is not a great look. That *is* more like the old-school response to Fossil bug reports

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
out, and the situation was never helped by the "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" crowd refusing to take bug reports -- and actively attacking bug reporters. So, the backstory of Fossil on 9fans is what led to it getting deleted. Asking for 'evidence' is just more of the sam

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
aches the 4.step he will find his own path to whatever fork he pleases. So where exactly was my reply mindless ? ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f230f2656bbb-M71a22bd1f90c60a96961d626 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicb

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
ork and is remotly accessible from plan9. But the choice of a scm is a question of taste. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-Mdaa67e50520b81d782e013be Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9f

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-13 Thread G B via 9fans
.@gmail.com> wrote: citation needed On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 1:58 PM wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2024, at 18:38, hiro wrote: > > how did you find out about this company, i never saw it mentioned > > anywhere before? > > I don't spend my time trolling 9fans. ;-) &g

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
o justify my decision. And I don't want my arguments. ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-Mc3b0cd4ec4f8c03885597e31 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread G B via 9fans
nz S-Class or Lexus or Acura since these newer automobiles are not automobiles from your perspective? On Monday, May 13, 2024 at 07:09:38 AM CDT, ibrahim via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 1:26 PM, hiro wrote: at this point all you're doing is speculati

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
ine by far. If you prefer this kind of conversation I don't have a problem with that too. I don't use 9front so spare me your lecturing this is not 9front's message board but 9fans. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9f

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
ill make sure that it doesn't make use of enhancements I am using within my fork respect the coding styles of such a compatibility layer if one is ever defined. The whole discussion is about interoperability between forks. ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicb

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
is definition but this would end the never ending discussions. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-M1595216f59332b3651b45df6 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
ing beyond that should be part of /n/sources. But thats my opinion. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-Me6f3d0b36f444b6ea666d4c1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
uot;), 9front is also one of those > continuations, same as 9legacy or any other fork that tries to live those > concepts. As I said before I view 9front as one fork of plan9 and one I'm respecting. You do a good job and people who use your fork surely benefit from your work. -

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 11:39 AM, hiro wrote: > are you contributing the team? and paying the team? If you asked me. I don't use 9front or any of your contributions why should I pay for or contribute to your team ? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: ht

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
mple questions there is nothing bold about my statements. This is 9fans and if you start the same discussions over and over again than you have to live with answers like mine. Neither you nor I own plan9 while people outside 9front have no problem with facts you have this problem. You can

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
r which I wrote a renderer in plan9. The second step was to write a converter pdftosvg which works for pdf files I had to handle. No C++ no postscript interpreter. If you have to handle pdf files with embedded postscript than I wish you good luck. ------ 9fans: 9fans Pe

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
hich than gets rendered by a tiny svg renderer. Substituting ghostscript with a new interpreter wasn't worth the effort in my case. By reading the pdf metadata you also can keep the outline and other information. ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
n't use it for distributed systems. ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-Mf4269410df19d9e1e7239526 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 02:18:54AM -0400, ibrahim via 9fans wrote: > You really should read the GPL. Your changes were included with GPL'ed code > even in the same file and not distributed as independent patches so the > modified work as a whole got infected by the GP

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 02:04:24AM -0400, ibrahim via 9fans wrote: > > There are many companies who double license code. As the owners of such code > they are free to do this. Users can't relicense code as they please > especially not GPL licensed code. At no point did we 'relicen

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
e file and not distributed as independent patches so the modified work as a whole got infected by the GPL license. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-Mcbca2e6474097e0d12b334e9 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 01:54:27AM -0400, ibrahim via 9fans wrote: > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > Happily. Here's the original revision of /lib/legal/NOTICE: http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/944787349e93/lib/legal/NOTICE > The Plan 9 software is provided und

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 11:52:29PM -0400, ibrahim via 9fans wrote: > > You ignore copyrights as you please and distributed 9front under an MIT > license long before Nokia as the owner of it decided to do so. You did > that at a time when plan9 was placed under GPL. You have apparen

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
g the "bold action" of relicensing appeard before the owners of the code made it available under MIT license. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-M87ce4c9f9e82fb2fa4b938f2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
omed not you because you are no legal entity. I have to make sure that my distributions has no legal issues. The way you answer to such licensing problems makes clear you don't care about them and take the issue lightly. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalin

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
elease is the real thing with a clear ownership and license. 9legacy would be the right choice as the current plan9 but it contains code from sources which bare the risk of infecting a MIT licensed plan9 if no measures are taken regarding these problems. --

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
of 9legacy is to clean up the system from such enhancements. But thats another topic ... -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-M9df35c16c3c2bbeb846ea0cf Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
er, terminal) + 9vx (for adjustments and as a rescue terminal) 3. Step : qemu + 9legacy (cpu, fileserver, terminal) + drawterm 4. Step : Bare metal as you like ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf12

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
bution. khm -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-M4264d1a4bf2b692f45d27184 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
d. Everyone in the Plan 9 world has what they want, at this point, except maybe unlimited free time to pursue the to-do list. khm ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-M945a6c0bfefaec1e617cb9

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
pond to this message. khm ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-M5bee9f213d1f12c8ad7568a2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] one weird trick to break p9sk1 ?

2024-05-12 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
t trolling, or depressing malpractice, depending on your intent. I can't ever know that, so I'll just state for posterity: kids, don't do this. It's a terrible plan. Do better, khm ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/group

Re: [9fans] best place to be sent a patch

2024-05-12 Thread Kyohei Kadota via 9fans
respond, others here might help > you on the path, others might appreciate taking part in your adventure > and others might learn from it, too. i guess you can cc david if > getting into 9legacy is your goal. > > On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 4:31 PM Kyohei Kadota via 9fans <9fans@9f

[9fans] best place to be sent a patch

2024-05-12 Thread Kyohei Kadota via 9fans
I have a question: where is the *best* place to be sent a patch for 9legacy? replica? GitHub? or here? I'm motivated, but I don't like to get no feedback as before. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T57377acea9350f32

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-12 Thread qwx via 9fans
. I hope this marks a turn of the tide. ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tcf128fa955b8aafc-M6a6ba83828236109b9c23a90 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-10 Thread qwx via 9fans
ing > one on 9fans? So you're ignoring the answers and advice people are giving you, including my own, because it's just not interesting enough? > How do you know that I did not follow any of Moodley's advice, which > incidentally I acknowledged I may not be competent to follow? Then which of M

Re: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front

2024-05-10 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
perhaps decide for on solution strategy ? If you just need to connect to a working plan9 I don't get the reason why you don't use 9legacy or 9vx instead of 9front. Perhaps I missed some reasoning. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-10 Thread thedaemon via 9fans
matter and does it in a perfectly justified and well > formulated fashion - and gets accused of being an AI or at minimum playing > one on 9fans? > > How do you know that I did not follow any of Moodley's advice, which > incidentally I acknowledged I may not be competent to follow?

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-10 Thread qwx via 9fans
On Fri May 10 11:09:32 +0200 2024, lucio.d...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm finding it ironic, though, that the defenders of the true 9front faith > find it necessary to insult their "enemies" in a forum dedicated to the > very subject matter they are so disapproving of. Surely they r

Re: [9fans] Name duplication in union directories

2024-05-05 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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[9fans] Name duplication in union directories

2024-05-04 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
duplication in union directories, then I may be able to get away with less code. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf4c3dc658874afea-M65300584831da4f8f8d56134 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread Bakul Shah via 9fans
On Apr 18, 2024, at 2:48 PM, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > Just another reason to eventually have Rust on Plan 9… Yeah. Compiles are too damn fast; no time to make masala chai :-) -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread Bakul Shah via 9fans
uot; ones by the date of the latest modified file, development ones by the version we were working on + developer name). We also modified tar to allow saving and restoring a set of trees (recreating links for identical files). -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread Bakul Shah via 9fans
re 35 years of evolution in software practices has very > much improved. > > Paul > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 8:55 a.m. certanan via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net > <mailto:9fans@9fans.net>> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there any more "organic/natural&q

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread certanan via 9fans
> From what I understand folks used to make diffs against the last release. > There was also some use of replica as you eluded to. That answers my question. Thanks. tom -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

[9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread certanan via 9fans
e patches without much hassle? Was it as simple as backing a source tree up, making some changes, and then comparing the two? Venti? Replica? tom ------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tab2715b0e6f3e0a5-M3ad4cc51ed9aeb

Re: [9fans] troll paper

2024-04-16 Thread G B via 9fans
to avoid 80k lines of > yaml that you must look at directly. while it may help -- this is just stacking complexity on top of complexity. kubernetes may be a tool that some of us need to deal with for our jobs, but it has no place in a well designed rethink of the world. 9fans / 9fans / se

Re: [9fans] troll paper

2024-04-16 Thread Bakul Shah via 9fans
complexity around but not conquer it. In any new design, at the start you often overbuild because you don't quite know what will work but soon you have to sense what is scaffolding and can be removed vs what is essential and must be left in. ------ 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-07 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
rit of "if we had to implement this, how would we do it while inflicting the least harm"... :) ---------- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T675e737e776e5a9c-M124c4e12c40240ab85dbdea0 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-06 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
it appeared to make no measurable difference at all (though I don't know whether v9fs can take advantage of the *at capability). Maybe there's some use case where it makes a more dramatic difference. My tests were not very scientific. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-06 Thread Bakul Shah via 9fans
 (which has nothing to do with plan9 but people explored some researchy ideas)On Apr 6, 2024, at 10:37 AM, ron minnich wrote:openat gives you the effect of 'cd path; open file' without having to cd. I don't see a lot of benefit to it unless you're opening a lot of files at that path. 9fans / 9fans

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-06 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] openat()

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Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-05 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] openat()

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Re: [9fans] 9legacy Raspberry Pi HDMI video questions

2024-04-05 Thread slash 9fans
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Re: [9fans] cmdline.txt for RPi 4 with QHD screen

2024-04-05 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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[9fans] 9legacy Raspberry Pi HDMI video questions

2024-04-05 Thread slash 9fans
Dear 9fans, I am booting my Raspberry Pi 4B off the 9legacy SD card image (http://www.9legacy.org/download.html) and it boots fine with the default config.txt, but there is a 48-pixel wide black border on the screen. term% echo `{ dd -if /dev/screen -bs 64 -count 1} 0+1 records in 0+1

Re: [9fans] How to PXE boot with "two" DHCP servers on one network

2024-03-25 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Re: Hello, RPi fixes and bind -b trouble

2024-02-24 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Re: Hello, RPi fixes and bind -b trouble

2024-02-23 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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[9fans] Re: Hello, RPi fixes and bind -b trouble

2024-02-22 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Re: broken link in cat-v

2024-02-10 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
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[9fans] Re: Hello, RPi fixes and bind -b trouble

2024-02-04 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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[9fans] Re: Hello, RPi fixes and bind -b trouble

2024-02-04 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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[9fans] Hello, RPi fixes and bind -b trouble

2024-02-04 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-27 Thread hiro via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-26 Thread g_patrickb via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] how to : create an p9f contrib folder

2024-01-26 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] how to : create an p9f contrib folder

2024-01-26 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] how to : create an p9f contrib folder

2024-01-26 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] how to : create an p9f contrib folder

2024-01-26 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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[9fans] how to : create an p9f contrib folder

2024-01-26 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-26 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-25 Thread thedaemon via 9fans
> If 9front becomes the "mainline" 9, I will stop using 9 altogether. Both as >>> a user and a developer. >>> >>> I trust the sources that come from 9legacy/9pio but I don't have any >>> interest in the mess of whatever 9front is supposed to be. &

Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-25 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-25 Thread hiro via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-25 Thread hiro via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-24 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-24 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
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Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

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Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks

2024-01-24 Thread David Leimbach via 9fans
experience, especially with regard to other Thinkpad models?9front even runs on the MNT Reform, would the corresponding code be easily transferable to 9legacy?Many thanks in advance!Best regards, alex 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

Re: [9fans] I did bad things and 9front won't boot

2023-12-20 Thread qwx via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation is a 501(c)(3)

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation is a 501(c)(3)

2023-12-12 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
n the Foundation’s page for donations: >http://plan9foundation.org/donate.html >On behalf of the board, thanks to everyone who’s expressed interest for >your patience in getting to this point. >Anthony Sorace, >Treasurer >9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + del

[9fans] Re: missing characters in german kbmap?

2023-12-08 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] odd rwakeup qunlock behaviour in 9vx

2023-11-09 Thread ibrahim via 9fans
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