* [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
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From: Blake McBride @ 2013-12-15 22:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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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
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* 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
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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
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* 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
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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
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* Re: [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom
2013-12-15 22:53 ` Tristan
@ 2013-12-15 22:59 ` Blake McBride
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From: Blake McBride @ 2013-12-15 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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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
>
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>
>
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* 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
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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.
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* 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
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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.
>
>
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