From: matt@proweb.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 finished
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:45:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <124b0b2bd6fb1fcc201f7e7ff1d33d5f@juice.thebigchoice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402281137.i1SBbabS044383@adat.davidashen.net>
>> When I said I tell people plan9 is finished I mean "complete" not "dead".
>Do you think there is a difference between complete and dead?
I prefer to think of it as stable and predictable.
The kernel is finished modulo drivers. If fairly sure there won't suddenly be a new scheduler or VM or 9p2005 or a bunch of new syscalls to surprise me.
I think people want to be sure in their time investment. If they see that someone is *still* fiddling with the kernel then if they put 6 months into learning the OS http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ will still be there at the end of it.
Personally I'd prefer to think that if I download it today I won't have to be downloading updates every week for the rest of my days that break all my efforts to date.
Personally I would still use plan9 if everyone else stopped, I'm sure plenty of us here feel the same.
m
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-28 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-28 11:30 matt
2004-02-28 11:37 ` David Tolpin
2004-02-28 12:45 ` matt [this message]
2004-02-28 13:00 ` David Tolpin
2004-02-28 13:22 ` David Presotto
2004-02-28 13:36 ` matt
2004-02-28 13:46 ` Brantley Coile
2004-02-28 14:04 ` David Tolpin
2004-02-28 15:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-28 16:27 ` David Presotto
2004-02-28 13:27 ` matt
2004-02-28 13:29 ` David Tolpin
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