Re: [9fans] plan9 finished

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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> The kernel is finished modulo drivers. If fairly sure there won't suddenly be
> a new scheduler or VM or 9p2005 or a bunch of new syscalls to surprise me.

Except we've had two major rewrites of the scheduler in the last 6 months...

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From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 finished
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:00:18 +0400 (AMT)
Message-ID: <200402281300.i1SD0Ipm044920@adat.davidashen.net>

> >> When I said I tell people plan9 is finished I mean "complete" not "dead".
>
> >Do you think there is a difference between complete and dead?
>
> I prefer to think of it as stable and predictable.
> The kernel is finished modulo drivers. If fairly sure there won't suddenly be
> a new scheduler or VM or 9p2005 or a bunch of new syscalls to surprise me.
>
> I think people want to be sure in their time investment. If they see that
> someone is *still* fiddling with the kernel then if they put 6 months into
> learning the OS http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ will still be there at
> the end of it.
>
> Personally I'd prefer to think that if I download it today I won't have to be
> downloading updates every week for the rest of my days that break all my
> efforts to date.
>
> Personally I would still use plan9 if everyone else stopped, I'm sure plenty
> of us here feel the same.

So, what is the difference between a complete and a dead?