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The most "research" thing I'm aware of 9front (since you're speaking in present tense) doing is that GEFS needed to work out a lot of things for itself that weren't in the Bε-tree …

9P is a protocol, FUSE isn't. "Plan 9 praisers who don't actually use Plan 9" have a tendentious way of speaking, that's actually a lot like "AI slop", that Plan 9 users can instan…

Dozer might be the most likely path to that. https://notgull.net/announcing-dozer

Plan 9 does that, e.g. dial(2) to do the /net dance. ("2" here actually means something like "3plan9".)

Why?

What I meant by this is, if we had a decent X on Plan 9, we would actually use it, because right now remoting into other systems is just VNC...

Is it written in C? If it is and you open-sourced it, someone might port it to Plan 9.

What do you mean "hold-over"? In NI we still say "first year" through "fifth year". Is that not done in Britain?

> monitors have grown Most people use laptops. (Or it's at least 50/50.)

Scwm had animations, which went in sometime before the ~2001 Usenix paper, due to a need for them. I don't think there's anything out of place about needful animations.

It's called dynamic window management, it's very popular, and that's without the animations showing you that something got moved.

1. You can't pick and choose your monitor like this on laptops. 2. I like my "window/s of interest" (the current "task") to be front and centre; I would like my window management w…

Compiz had it: https://youtu.be/KGkodX89ouA?t=244

The first paragraph of https://archive.org/details/rc-shell/ So rc was made for Plan 9. The examples in that paper are definitely on tenth edition Unix, I think this would be becau…

> That's what we were trying to (and succeeded at being able to) avoid. What did he mean by this?

Some clues: The mk paper (and Unix man page) doesn't mention rc. Plan 9 existed since the mid-80s. This sentence in the Unix rc(1) sure makes it seem like rc was Plan 9-first: Envi…

Mash from Inferno https://inbox.vuxu.org/9fans/AANLkTikvTbqLwrxifri86cAEBS3wmk...

I've been seeing people, never ones who were actually there, make this claim in the last five to ten years. Rc was on tenth edition Unix. I've seen no evidence that it originated o…

I did read the paper, I always thought it was theoretical too. Then I saw a video with maddog saying he witnessed Ken logging in using his backdoor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0kkwtO94I

I'm curious why private school? The usual reason people don't unschool is they haven't really heard of it ( or they've heard of it but believe some boomer conventional wisdom like …

The fire conventional wisdom thing is just that: conventional wisdom. Debunked in this week's Tom Scott video.

And yet Plan 9 has a curl/wget equivalent, `hget`.

What I find interesting is that Plan 9's "who" did not . It's just ls /proc | sed '{grep out usernames}' | sort -u so it's pretty specific to whatever machine it runs on, as oppose…