Post 275487 by neauoire@sunbeam.city
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(DIR) Post #274323 by erbridge@sunbeam.city
2018-09-28T15:46:21Z
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Why are people talking about Plan 9?
(DIR) Post #274324 by neauoire@sunbeam.city
2018-09-28T18:16:47Z
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@erbridge because it’s such a neat little thing. We should not let it be forgotten.
(DIR) Post #274704 by erbridge@sunbeam.city
2018-09-28T18:41:23Z
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@neauoire I guess I should reframe my question :). Why is it interesting?
(DIR) Post #275362 by neauoire@sunbeam.city
2018-09-28T19:43:45Z
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@erbridge There's a few different aspects to it that are. The OS feels like it was designed by a single philosopher, everything shares the same ideos, and makes it feel like a unified ecosystem. For instance, the 9P protocols that allows any app to speak with any other app. It has a pretty unique IDE too, Acme, with its load of experimental concepts that we haven't seen much elsewhere.Watch the tutorial videos on youtube, or have a look at http://cat-v.org
(DIR) Post #275390 by erbridge@sunbeam.city
2018-09-28T19:46:20Z
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@neauoire Ok, that sounds pretty cool. Are you able to do anything useful with it, or is it just a ghost of computing past?
(DIR) Post #275487 by neauoire@sunbeam.city
2018-09-28T19:51:02Z
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@erbridge You can make apps for it, you can go online, it has browsers, and tools for things. My Plan9 Pi is now the thing I use to learn how to write C apps, my distractionless writing station, longform email answering thing. But all in all, it being so foreign and self-contained, it's a daily reminder that there is worth doing things your own way, against all standards and away from all dependencies and methods.
(DIR) Post #275514 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2018-09-28T19:52:25.516606Z
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@erbridge @neauoire It runs Go and Python and other stuff, a lot of normal things run, people are still building stuff on/for it. Blue Gene still runs it, even.