Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

if there's any branch of plan9 missing in 9front please just send the
patch or a reminder.

On 1/18/22, Matt <matthpmoreira@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, January 17, 2022, at 8:36 PM, Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
> wrote:
>> I'm afraid you got it wrong. Community is mostly centered around
> 9front. One of the reasons is that it actually works and is still
> being developed and used by many. Plan 9 is dead, 9front lives on.
> There is also software developed outside of 9front git repo, by people
> who use 9front: http://only9fans.com Whether some "secret community" decides
> to "accept" (or not) 9front as
> "official" doesn't matter.
> I see. Now that I look at it, 9fans its more similar to 9front than Plan 9
> indeed. My confusion arose from the description being "Fans of the OS Plan 9
> from Bell Labs". Besides that, the subreddit is r/plan9, and people seem to
> talk more often about Plan 9 itself than 9front. Thanks for clearing it up.
>
> On Monday, January 17, 2022, at 9:21 PM, Thaddeus Woskowiak wrote:
>> All wrong. From my perspective 9front is plan 9 from the future
>> compared to today's plan 9. 9front development moves at a much faster
>> pace thanks to adopting tools like mercurial in the past and now git.
>> That enables devs who are passionate about moving plan 9 forward
>> commit access using tools they, and most of today's developers are
>> already intimate with. It has virtualization, modern encryption,
>> cleaned up pci code, rc fixes, boot clean up, and so much more.
>>
>> The mailing list is very active and crawling with devs eager to review
>> and apply fixes. It has a lot of enthusiastic energy behind it and
>> keeps the core philosophy of plan 9 alive. This has attracted many
>> wonderful and talented devs who would have otherwise stumbled with the
>> old defaults of legacy.
>>
>> Personally, I struggled with plan 9 until finding 9front. I run a CPU
>> server at home 24/7 and it's been running reliably for years. I then
>> netboot or tcp boot everything else. I love working with this
>> operating system.
> That's really great. I'm also interested and quite enthusiastic about
> working with 9front. Although, I'd have more chances of winning a
> competition for the worst developer... Thanks for your help.

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