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(216.9.110.2 [216.9.110.2]) by eigenstate.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 0aa63af1 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO); Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:32:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:32:35 -0800 From: Ori Bernstein To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> Cc: Lucio De Re Subject: Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive? Message-Id: <20191124123235.a29ba3f7a14a69365c377ecf@eigenstate.org> In-Reply-To: References: <83054678AC38490907D956243528B1D4@ewsd.inri.net> <2566f3964ef2455c38c1576b7f68fc45@hamnavoe.com> <20191123201701.GA14389@wopr> <20191123202735.GB14389@wopr> <20191124020302.GA70376@wopr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-unknown-openbsd6.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Policy-Reasoning: allow: sender is a member Topicbox-Message-UUID: 91747cac-0ef9-11ea-8062-8e518bb16757 On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:34:32 +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > We just got a mouthful from sl and you about the lack of explanation > for the state of the various plan 9 "distributions". It all smacks of > expecting Da Vinci to update the Mona Lisa because somebody would > prefer a high-rise landscape in the background and because someone > actually did photoshop the Mona Lisa in that guise, but was not > accepted as the most significant contributor to the painting. I'm not sure that analogy serves the purpose intended. The Mona Lisa is something sitting in a museum for people to gawk at a bit before getting on with their day to day business, using tools that they either adapt to their needs, or replace with ones that are already suitable. -- Ori Bernstein