From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56fdc9351a20a3af81daac04322109f4@proxima.alt.za> References: <56fdc9351a20a3af81daac04322109f4@proxima.alt.za> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:12:32 +0100 Message-ID: From: Giacomo Tesio To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1132f23a8f036d0511a09904 Subject: Re: [9fans] Very old bug in db(1) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4a58bcb4-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a1132f23a8f036d0511a09904 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Oh, I completely missed patch(1). And actually it was just when one should look up for at first... man pages. Sorry. Thanks for the tip! It's a fragmented small community and that is just sad. It is not > likely that things will get better in the foreseeable future, so pick > your side :-) To pick a side, one should knows the "contenders" enough. :-) It's very hard to find clear statements about the differences between the various plan9 flavours, or clear descriptions of the vision driving the development of each fork (at least I wasn't able to find them). This is particularly true for plan9 forks that bet on Plan9 evolution outside bell labs (9atom and 9front), while it's easy to get the differences between 9legacy, Inferno, Nix-os etc... More than 15 years ago, when I started using linux, it was easy to see how Debian was different from RedHat or Suse. In the Plan9 ecosystem, while looks that some are quite upsets about such differences, it's hard to grasp them from the outside. Giacomo --001a1132f23a8f036d0511a09904 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Oh, I completely missed patch(1). And actually it was just= when one should look up for at first... man pages. Sorry.

Thanks for the tip!

It's a frag= mented small community and that is just sad.=C2=A0 It is not
likely that= things will get better in the foreseeable future, so pick
your side :-)=

To pick a side, one should knows the = "contenders" enough. :-)
It's very hard to find cle= ar statements about the differences between the various plan9 flavours, or = clear descriptions of the vision driving the development of each fork (at l= east I wasn't able to find them).
This is particularly true f= or plan9 forks that bet on Plan9 evolution outside bell labs (9atom and 9fr= ont), while it's easy to get the differences between 9legacy, Inferno, = Nix-os etc...

More than 15 years ago, when I start= ed using linux, it was easy to see how Debian was different from RedHat or = Suse.
In the Plan9 ecosystem, while looks that some are quite ups= ets about such differences, it's hard to grasp them from the outside.


Giacomo

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