> I haven't logged into a real Plan 9 system in many years,
Oh, n!!! WHY?!?
As a plain user, a non-techie, I use Plan 9 native as my firs OS on
everyday basis... I log onto linux only for testing things that may be
worth porting, and for compiling the c++ stuff...
Please, do not let the
Thanks for all the responses. We us a lot of Macs as well. Everyone has a Mac
and use plan9ports, drawterm, 9vx, terminals running in Parallels or Fusion,
and hosted Inferno. We also, of course, have a real Plan 9 network with a Ken
file server using EtherDrive as both the local cache and the
What Russ says is true but for me it was simpler. I used Plan 9 as my
local operating system for a year or so after joining Google, but it
was just too inconvenient to live on a machine without a C++ compiler,
without good NFS and SSH support, and especially without a web
browser. I switched to Li
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Russ Cox wrote:
> > Can you briefly tell us why you (Russ, Rob, Ken and Dave)
> > no longer use Plan9 ?
> > Because of missing apps or because of missing driver for your hardware ?
> > And do you still use venti ?
>
> Operating systems and programming languages h
> Can you briefly tell us why you (Russ, Rob, Ken and Dave)
> no longer use Plan9 ?
> Because of missing apps or because of missing driver for your hardware ?
> And do you still use venti ?
Operating systems and programming languages have
strong network effects: it helps to use the same system
tha
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Subject: Re: [9fans] What operating systems are the google guys using?
The standard set up for a Plan 9 aficionado here seems to
be a Mac or Linux machine running Plan 9 from User Space
to get a
The standard set up for a Plan 9 aficionado here seems to
be a Mac or Linux machine running Plan 9 from User Space
to get at sam, acme, and the other tools. Rob, Ken, Dave, and I
use Macs as our desktop machines, but we're a bit of an exception.
Most Google engineers use Linux machines, and I know
> I think mostly Macs with p9p.
The Go(ogle) announcement video combined with running platforms
indicate MacOS.
I think mostly Macs with p9p.
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Given that Google has a critical mass of Plan 9 people working away, and doing
great things in my humble opinion, one wonders, what kind of environment are
you running? What does the people who created Plan 9 use day to day?
Thanks
Brantley
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