if there's any branch of plan9 missing in 9front please just send the patch or a reminder.
On 1/18/22, Matt <matthpmore...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday, January 17, 2022, at 8:36 PM, Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir > wrote: >> I'm afraid you got it wrong. Community is mostly centered around > 9front. One of the reasons is that it actually works and is still > being developed and used by many. Plan 9 is dead, 9front lives on. > There is also software developed outside of 9front git repo, by people > who use 9front: http://only9fans.com Whether some "secret community" decides > to "accept" (or not) 9front as > "official" doesn't matter. > I see. Now that I look at it, 9fans its more similar to 9front than Plan 9 > indeed. My confusion arose from the description being "Fans of the OS Plan 9 > from Bell Labs". Besides that, the subreddit is r/plan9, and people seem to > talk more often about Plan 9 itself than 9front. Thanks for clearing it up. > > On Monday, January 17, 2022, at 9:21 PM, Thaddeus Woskowiak wrote: >> All wrong. From my perspective 9front is plan 9 from the future >> compared to today's plan 9. 9front development moves at a much faster >> pace thanks to adopting tools like mercurial in the past and now git. >> That enables devs who are passionate about moving plan 9 forward >> commit access using tools they, and most of today's developers are >> already intimate with. It has virtualization, modern encryption, >> cleaned up pci code, rc fixes, boot clean up, and so much more. >> >> The mailing list is very active and crawling with devs eager to review >> and apply fixes. It has a lot of enthusiastic energy behind it and >> keeps the core philosophy of plan 9 alive. This has attracted many >> wonderful and talented devs who would have otherwise stumbled with the >> old defaults of legacy. >> >> Personally, I struggled with plan 9 until finding 9front. I run a CPU >> server at home 24/7 and it's been running reliably for years. I then >> netboot or tcp boot everything else. I love working with this >> operating system. > That's really great. I'm also interested and quite enthusiastic about > working with 9front. Although, I'd have more chances of winning a > competition for the worst developer... Thanks for your help. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T395156d4f2b00cde-Ma28c3e32d3b18dd271e6d989 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
