> On 2/13/18, Rui Carmo <rui.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I get the current website and some of the in-jokes, but a step-by-step guide > > for installing, building and contributing would be great ... > > It's so easy to fall into the trap of elitism, while bemoaning the > shortage of development hands needed to bring Plan 9 (or any one of > its other flavours) into the "mainstream". > > What keeps Plan 9 alive and this list/group thriving is the > conversation, irrespective of the actual pertinence to the "real > world". It is knowing that the world has rejected the Plan 9 "grace" > and are therefore not deserving, blah, blah. Human natures, humoured, > harmlessly. Why not? Plan 9 is elegant, 9front presumably has some > robust features, the other flavours can handle their own niche > objectives. > > I've been absent here for a long spell and came back recently to > discover most of the old hands still at it and some new blood raising, > mutatis mutandis, the same issues we've seen go past since 1995 (for > me). It is as familiar as it is reassuring. > > But the reality is that Plan 9 is too good in too many ways and the > world can only absorb chunks of that at the time (disruptive > technologies, I believe they were labelled, way back) and so it > progresses very little while the few remaining contenders to the prize > of OS of the century or millennium or whatever have the resources to > track the bad engineering decisions they (the OSes) facilitate or even > demand. > > Merging Plan 9 flavours would resolve many otherwise intractable > problems, but it will do nothing to improve the penetration of Plan 9 > in the marketplace and no one has the funds to tackle it, even if they > felt that the result would be worth it. > > But there is something in not following the fashion; I, for one, > really cherish it. Mostly because it is all so simple, once you leave > the baroque world of Windows, Linux and OSX behind. > > Lucio.
I think he was looking for http://fqa.9front.org/fqa4.html and http://fqa.9front.org/fqa5.html sl