From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7256e16c706d47e75e70a1ac0b36e889@ladd.quanstro.net> References: <703b2539-027e-4f9f-a739-00b59f6d3d82@v28g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <7256e16c706d47e75e70a1ac0b36e889@ladd.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:27:07 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016361e850852691f04943ffbcf Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77173f1c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016361e850852691f04943ffbcf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:00 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Admiral Fukov >wrote: > > > > > I'm looking at > > > > > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/ > > > > > > and I noticed that most of the distribution hasn't been updated in > > > years. > > > Is the development of plan 9 abandoned? > > > > > > > > There's a plan9changes google group I believe that will let you see the > > commits that have been going in. > > > > Plan 9 is satisfying all it's users' needs at the moment. There have > been > > proposals to make it more linuxy in the past, but we know where linux is > if > > we want it. > > > > That's not to say people aren't exploring new ways to develop it and make > it > > a better Plan 9. > > isn't the posting name "Admiral Fukov" enough to clue us in > that this is just a troll? that and the fact we get this one about > once a year? > > - erik > > Maybe. If it's a troll, it is pointing out something that might not be obvious to people on the outside. People are still using Plan 9 People are still working on Plan 9 --0016361e850852691f04943ffbcf Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:00 AM, erik qua= nstrom <quans= tro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Admiral Fukov <admiralfukov@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > I'm looking at
> >
> > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/
> >
> > and I noticed that most of the distribution hasn't been updat= ed in
> > years.
> > Is the development of plan 9 abandoned?
> >
> >
> There's a plan9changes google group I believe that will let you se= e the
> commits that have been going in.
>
> Plan 9 is satisfying all it's users' needs at the moment= . =A0There have been
> proposals to make it more linuxy in the past, but we know where linux = is if
> we want it.
>
> That's not to say people aren't exploring new ways to develop = it and make it
> a better Plan 9.

isn't the posting name "Admiral Fukov" enough to clue us in that this is just a troll? =A0that and the fact we get this one about
once a year?

- erik


Maybe. =A0If it's a troll, it is poi= nting out something that might not be obvious to people on the outside.

=A0People are still using Plan 9
=A0People = are still working on Plan 9


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