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To: nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:29:23 +0900
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First of all, I'd like to say "Don't hurry too much to distribute new release".
We are using 3rd ed, and are mostly happy with it.  The most important thing to
us, Plan 9 users, is to enrich it by producing many of applications.   If so, stable
version is desired for such purpose (I don't say the new release will be unstable,
but users are more famillier with current release, and working now for it.  ^_^

If the next release will not fit into a floppy, I'd like to get working version from
net.  However, I suppose this is related to the matter what kind of people you
want to distribute it.   According to my understanding, Plan 9 is not suitable for
personal use, but rather to some organization such as Univ. or company.  I may
be wrong when we consider to run Plan 9 on a single machine is important.
If most users may belong to some organization, getting it from net is suitable, I think.

Kenji

PS. You will see many complaines about the difficulty of Plan 9 installation, and so on.
Don't be afraid it too much.   According to my observations in these more than five years,
users who are contributing Plan 9 community have never complained, but just worked
mainly by him/her-selves... :-)