From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:08:29 +0800 Message-ID: From: Fernan Bolando To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom? Topicbox-Message-UUID: ae8f6758-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > This question has been bugging me for some time and I haven't found any > discussions on the matter. It seems that at least the devices support could > go into the original plan9 kernel. What's the reason for having a fork? --This is just how I see this, you can choose to ignore the rest of the message. i have always considered 9atom and a few other independent plan9 stuff as something similar to the openbsd release strategy. Theres a stable release and a current. 9atom is more like openbsd-current it's bleeding edge, but it should be _more_ stable and has _more_ hardware support. The official iso is more like openbsd-stable unless something is broken you will only see bug fixes, until bell-labs considers the new stuff as stable.