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From: "Corey" <corey_s@qwest.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] this is not an advocacy question
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 00:10:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605260010.55740.corey_s@qwest.net> (raw)


However I'm curious:

When would one prefer/opt to use/deploy Plan9 over Inferno, 
and/or vice versa?

As far as I've been able to tell, it appears that Inferno is pretty
much Plan9, but with a couple "additions" - namely: Limbo and
Dis - and thus a different development model. Do they both use
the same kernel? How much common userland do they share?
( is "Styx" just a renamed 9P2000? )

To rephrase my question:

To what extent(s) does Inferno differ from Plan9? What approximate
percentage of Inferno consists of Plan9 v4?

( I'm not yet looking for pros/cons of either - just what the actual,
fundamental technical/functional differences are. )

Thanks for the clue!  I come from a unix client/server background,
so I'm still working at simply getting my head around this "new"
environment from a 40,000 ft. view.

I've become very interested in distributed computing, as approached
from a Plan9 perspective, and I am very much appreciating the general 
"keep it small, clean/correct and focused" mentality/objective which 
is very apparent.

Thanks!






             reply	other threads:[~2006-05-26  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-26  7:10 Corey [this message]
2006-05-26  7:16 ` geoff
2006-05-26  8:48   ` Corey
2006-05-26  9:17     ` geoff
2006-05-26 14:29 ` rog
2006-05-26 17:39   ` David Leimbach
2006-05-30 11:02     ` rog
2006-05-30 15:06       ` David Leimbach
2006-05-30 15:14         ` rog
2006-05-30 16:26           ` David Leimbach
2006-05-30 16:36             ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-05-30 17:08               ` David Leimbach
2006-05-30 17:19                 ` rog
2006-05-30 23:37               ` LiteStar numnums
2006-06-01 16:32           ` rog
2006-06-01 16:50             ` David Leimbach
2006-05-27 20:08 ` Corey
2006-05-26  9:51 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-05-26 15:16 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-05-26 15:53   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-05-26 17:03     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-05-26 18:23 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-26 18:48   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-26 19:00     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-05-31  3:19     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-05-26 17:32 erik quanstrom

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