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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Thu,  4 Nov 2010 13:15:19 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:36:11AM +0000, Admiral Fukov wrote:
> I'm looking at
>
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/
>
> and I noticed that most of the distribution hasn't been updated in
> years.
> Is the development of plan 9 abandoned?


Please note the timestamps in listings describe just the directory or file
itself; it is not computed recursively. In particular, a directory has its
timestamp updated only when a new entry is added -- not merely modified --
which is a rare event for top-level directories. If you browse a bit deeper,
there's plenty enough of newer timestamps; mind the files.

Anyway -- as others wrote before -- the core of P9 is pretty stable :)

--
dexen deVries


``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.''