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

2024-05-13 Thread G B via 9fans
Curiously, I searched for Nantalala Systems and found an https link to NANTAHALA SYSTEMS. *BEWARE: SEEMS TO BE BOGUS*  Under "store" they list two workstations they sell, both listed as "sold out" that are  - OS: FreeBSD with ᴁBSD customizations Under ᴁOS (aka ᴁ9) installation me

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
"I respect your fork 9front but I won't and can't use it. 9front isn't plan9 from my perspective." Then you are still driving a Benz Patent-Motorwagen built in 1885, which is regarded as the first practical modern automobile instead of driving something newer like a Mercedes Benz S-Class or Lex

Re: [9fans] troll paper

2024-04-16 Thread G B via 9fans
Isn't Cue YACL (Yet Another Configuration Language)? Absolutely no way one can deprecate YAML and just use Cue, so all one is doing essentially is adding one more thing to learn and keep updated. And since it hasn't released 1.0, what happens if the new YACL never materializes but was adopted?

Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

2023-08-28 Thread G B via 9fans
Windows and Linux began on single-core single processor machines. Multiprocessor had been around for some time--IBM's System 360 began using multi-processors in 1968--but not for x86. Plan 9 first edition came out in 1992, at a time when multicore didn't exist, and multicore was released with

[9fans] Firewall/NAT and importing outside interface

2020-05-08 Thread G B via 9fans
I ran across this old post by Dave Presotto when someone inquired about Plan 9 as a firewall: If you have multiple Plan 9 machines, you can use one as an inside/outside machine and just import it's outside interface onto the inside machines.  For example, this is how we configure our outside i