From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] design issues in operating systems
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:51:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112032051.fB3KpBL02297@ducky.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vi4vgfour0b.fsf@blue.cs.yorku.ca>
I suspect one important factor in the popularity of Linux
is the relative openness of the development process of Linux.
There are regular releases of the latest version of the
code, even when there are works in progress that aren't
finished yet.
By contrast the Plan 9 developers are constantly dropping
all these hints about how great the next thing will be,
but the rest of us never get to see any code until it's
"done" -- and big changes take a long time.
I think Plan 9 would have a more enthusiastic following
if the ongoing development tree were out there for everyone
to see (and contribute to).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-03 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-02 17:05 Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-12-03 10:09 ` josh d
2001-12-03 15:24 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-12-03 15:08 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-03 15:48 ` andrey
2001-12-03 18:03 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-12-03 20:51 ` Mike Haertel [this message]
2001-12-03 10:10 ` north_
2001-12-03 16:55 ` John S. Dyson
2001-12-05 9:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-03 14:49 bwc
2001-12-03 15:45 bwc
2001-12-03 16:07 anothy
2001-12-03 16:04 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-03 16:27 presotto
2001-12-03 21:31 rob pike
2001-12-03 21:34 rob pike
2001-12-03 22:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-04 19:05 ` Dan Cross
2001-12-04 21:59 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-07 9:36 ` Barry
2001-12-03 22:50 jmk
2001-12-04 10:36 forsyth
2001-12-04 17:27 erik quanstrom
2001-12-05 8:49 Fco.J.Ballesteros
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