eeh... I cut out a bunch of stuff from my last mail because I didn't want to
derail the thread.
Anyone want a new thread on discussing the differences, or shall we just bung
it all here?
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018, at 4:24 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
>
> That said, I deem it unfortunate that there isn't a drive to
> consolidate the various flavours of Plan 9 into a single offering, or
> at least identify and discuss the differences and provide for the
> choices from a single source (pun
The reason 9front exists is because it was too difficult to get
patches applied to mainline plan9. Like geoff for mainline, 9front has
cinap as gatekeeper to maintain quality and when possible stability.
Also cinap is a programming monster and keeps on improving 9front
in big steps, so there isn't
So we're all putting it here? Okay then. I agree with pretty-much
everything hiro said this time.
Regarding differences between forks, what springs to my mind is the
fixes 9front needed to host cat-v.org. The site was switched to a
9front server at the time of Uriel's death, news of which
Ive been using 9front as a primary system ever since the one true
distribution neutered bintime and replaced it with the nsec system call.
Its nice that the 9front maintainers voulenteer to keep plan9's simplicity
alive (9atom is great too and has myriad device drivers written for modern
hardware
i forgot to mention: if you are confused why valuable contributions to
another fork are not included in 9front, and you don't know why,
please come and talk to us about it. either we didn't see it or
there's a architectural decisions or goals that don't align with
9front.
in general if you can
