From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:27:17 +0000 Message-ID: From: Jacek Masiulaniec 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: b2a79a86-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 15 February 2011 08:08, Fernan Bolando wrote: > 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. This is near total misrepresentation of the OpenBSD release process.