A Week with Plan 9

Post by smorrow » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

MisterTea wrote: post #13

runjake wrote: post #3

> This is a fringe Operating System No, TempleOS was a fringe operating system. Plan 9 was a legitimate research operating system developed by computer scientists who had a key role in the development of UNIX and other highly-regarded pieces of software. Plan 9-based technologies are a part of most, if not all, operating systems today (even Windows!). But, a fun article, and I'm always happy to see Plan 9 crop up fro…

Plenty of people still interested but the community is small. It's far from dead or forgotten. 9front is updated on a near daily basis.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 10:10 PM UTC

shakingmyhead wrote: post #73

basscomm wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect that the argument of "You should violate your personal principles because I want you to (just this once for me, and then you can go back to not violating them)" coming from an anonymous account on an internet message board is too flimsy to consider.

I think his principled stance that his contributions to an open source project have to include holocaust jokes is not very compelling or principled.

Post by NelsonMinar » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 12:44 AM UTC

khm wrote: post #41

michaelhoffman wrote: post #22

> 9Front And Surprise Auschwitz What the actual fuck. At first I thought this was some joke in poor taste by the blog post, but in fact he is referring to the use of Nazi death camp imagery in the documentation. That's not cool.

Hi. I made that image. I was searching for 'rails documentation' and accidentally hit the 'Images' link. That photo was in the first page of results. Its presence was so absurd and out of place that I felt like I had to do something with it. It was made in an era before actual Nazis had re-entered the public dialogue, so it felt like Google Image Search was denigrating Ruby on Rails by including this sort of imagery…