From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:49:10 -0400 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130314134910.GA43541@intma.in> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front Topicbox-Message-UUID: 293d9348-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:38:26AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu Mar 14 09:06:51 EDT 2013, 23hiro@gmail.com wrote: > > the difference about 9front is that it also works on real hardware, so > > you don't need to mess with these VMs. > > i think you misspelled "similarity". > > i'm sure you can point to some instances of hardware not working > in plan 9 and working in 9front. that's fine. but if i understand > correctly, 9front has taken the decision to not send in patches. > that's totally fine in my book. but it seems a little less than helpful > to not send patches and then criticize. > > - erik > All of 9front is public in the hg repository. Not sure what the value is in "sending in patches" of stuff we wrote because we wanted it, and not necessarily to solve some larger problem. If anyone wants the code, he can just take it. I don't think hiro was criticizing 9front as much as the fact that 9fans seems to discuss p9p and vbox on osx more than any other software. khm