* [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom @ 2013-12-15 22:34 Blake McBride 2013-12-15 22:48 ` Kurt H Maier 2013-12-16 0:37 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Blake McBride @ 2013-12-15 22:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 596 bytes --] I now see there are, at least, a couple of forks of Plan-9 with the goal of keeping off bit rot and making bug fixes and enhancements. Since I've had a lot of trouble attempting to boot Plan-9 on a laptop, VMWare Fusion, and a Linux VM Server, I thought I'd try the forks. (Actually, Plan-9 installed everywhere I tried but the graphics stuff didn't work.) I briefly looked at 9front and 9atom. I thought I would query this group about the two. Is one better maintained than the other? Does one have better hardware support than the other? Thanks for the help. Blake McBride [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 792 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom 2013-12-15 22:34 [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom Blake McBride @ 2013-12-15 22:48 ` Kurt H Maier 2013-12-15 22:53 ` Tristan 2013-12-16 0:37 ` erik quanstrom 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Kurt H Maier @ 2013-12-15 22:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Quoting Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>: > Is one better maintained than the other? Yes. > Does one have better hardware support than the other? Yes. khm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom 2013-12-15 22:48 ` Kurt H Maier @ 2013-12-15 22:53 ` Tristan 2013-12-15 22:59 ` Blake McBride 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Tristan @ 2013-12-15 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs > Quoting Kurt... > > Is one better maintained than the other? > Yes. 9atom. > > Does one have better hardware support than the other? > Yes. 9front. > khm tristan -- All original matter is hereby placed immediately under the public domain. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom 2013-12-15 22:53 ` Tristan @ 2013-12-15 22:59 ` Blake McBride 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Blake McBride @ 2013-12-15 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 380 bytes --] Thank you, Tristan. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Tristan <9p-st@imu.li> wrote: > > Quoting Kurt... > > > Is one better maintained than the other? > > Yes. > 9atom. > > > > Does one have better hardware support than the other? > > Yes. > 9front. > > > khm > tristan > > -- > All original matter is hereby placed immediately under the public domain. > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 823 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom 2013-12-15 22:34 [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom Blake McBride 2013-12-15 22:48 ` Kurt H Maier @ 2013-12-16 0:37 ` erik quanstrom 2013-12-16 1:31 ` Blake McBride 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2013-12-16 0:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > I briefly looked at 9front and 9atom. I thought I would query this group > about the two. Is one better maintained than the other? Does one have > better hardware support than the other? i'd appreciate some feedback on the usb install process if you get a chance. http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2 it can be used as a live environment as well, though it's inconvienent for that, as only the minimum set of executables are included. this was done to keep the image size down to a minimum. - erik ps. 9atom.org will be down from 21:00 pm EST 15 dec to 03:00 am EST 16 dec (02:00am - 07:00am GMT) for network maintence. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom 2013-12-16 0:37 ` erik quanstrom @ 2013-12-16 1:31 ` Blake McBride 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Blake McBride @ 2013-12-16 1:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 786 bytes --] Will do. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:37 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote: > > I briefly looked at 9front and 9atom. I thought I would query this group > > about the two. Is one better maintained than the other? Does one have > > better hardware support than the other? > > i'd appreciate some feedback on the usb install process if you get a > chance. > http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2 > it can be used as a live environment as well, though it's inconvienent for > that, > as only the minimum set of executables are included. this was done to keep > the image size down to a minimum. > > - erik > > ps. 9atom.org will be down from 21:00 pm EST 15 dec to > 03:00 am EST 16 dec (02:00am - 07:00am GMT) for network > maintence. > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1327 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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