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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:53:29 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20191123150842.0cb241ffef2e3b6b0affa08a@eigenstate.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BlackCat-Spam-Score: 12 X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 Topicbox-Policy-Reasoning: allow: sender is a member Topicbox-Message-UUID: e96819f8-0e97-11ea-9aaf-ce35b1e4dc23 > The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io. It > doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015. Please look more closely: cpu% srv -n 9p.io sources /n/sources post... cpu% ls -lrt /n/sources/patch/*/files|tail -24 --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 fst sys 160 Mar 18 2016 /n/sources/patch/kexportfs/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 102 Apr 19 2016 /n/sources/patch/segment-overlap/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 30 Apr 19 2016 /n/sources/patch/proc-smp-fixes/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 172 Apr 19 2016 /n/sources/patch/armv7-atomic/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 djc sys 36 Apr 19 2016 /n/sources/patch/pread-offset/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 fst sys 33 May 22 2016 /n/sources/patch/dial-await-bug/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 38 May 29 2016 /n/sources/patch/usbserial-ftdi-writelen/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 bootes sys 76 May 29 2016 /n/sources/patch/usbether-rpi/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 29 May 30 2016 /n/sources/patch/ramfs-fixes/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 272 Nov 6 2016 /n/sources/patch/wpa-psk/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 fst sys 43 Feb 9 2017 /n/sources/patch/tcp-halfduplex-close/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 stevesimon sys 44 Feb 21 2017 /n/sources/patch/sed-unbuffered/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 102 Mar 13 2017 /n/sources/patch/usb-ether-cdc/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 stevesimon sys 38 Mar 14 2017 /n/sources/patch/httpfile-suicide/files --rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none sys 41 Jun 29 2017 /n/sources/patch/ndb-remove-cast/files --rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none sys 27 Aug 30 2017 /n/sources/patch/comm-utf-sort/files --rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none sys 29 Aug 30 2017 /n/sources/patch/ascii-extra-newline/files --rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none sys 35 Aug 31 2017 /n/sources/patch/gmtime-tzoff-unset/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 297 Apr 5 2018 /n/sources/patch/usb-ether-lan78xx/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 36 Apr 5 2018 /n/sources/patch/exec-postnote-race/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 30 Apr 5 2018 /n/sources/patch/exit-wrong-parent/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 28 Apr 9 2018 /n/sources/patch/ssh2-dh-group14/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 33 Apr 9 2018 /n/sources/patch/aes-ctr/files --rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller sys 114 Apr 9 2018 /n/sources/patch/ssh2-aes-ctr/files cpu% Not a huge amount of churn there, but still a "sign of activity". > I've been around for a while and I > would have trouble finding the bits needed for a day-to-day usable > system outside of the 9front world. "Usable" is a function of who's doing the using. I use the Labs version every day and it does what I need. If another version suits somebody else, that's great.