From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <33e2329fe3abd2d9d6341fe723cf76e2@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 22:03:37 -0600 Message-ID: From: Steven Stallion To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors? Topicbox-Message-UUID: adffee50-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Patryk Laurent wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > I just joined the list, and so I missed your question. But I also opted for going with the vanilla distribution. Enjoy -- it's been pretty fun so far! > > Patryk > > > >> On Jan 5, 2014, at 15:54, Alex Jordan wrote: >> >>> On Mon Dec 30 21:03:24 EST 2013, alexander3223098@gmail.com wrote: >>> Basically, would you guys recommend I try the Bell Labs >>> distribution of Plan 9, 9front, or 9atom as my first installation? >> Since no one seems to have an opinion on this, I'm going with the Bell >> Labs distribution. We'll see how it goes. >> >>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> well let me know if i can answer any questions or fix anything. funny how we all get >>> pigeon holed. i thought i did 9atom to support more hardware. :-) >> Will do, thanks! There are a few of us that still hold out hope for the Labs distribution. I use a locally modified version (you can find my patches under contrib/stallion/patch in sources - some are applied, some not). I'm fairly happy with it since I tend to hack on ARM more than anything else these days. HTH, Steve