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From: matt@proweb.co.uk
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 finished
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:45:29 +0000
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>> 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