Re: [9fans] Formation of a Plan 9 Core Team

[Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>]

On 1/26/24, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> People use 9front, which is not plan 9. Many good things
>> started as forks, and that's ok.
>
> mostly i agreed. but to me plan9 is just an old 9front version without
> the bootloader.
>
It's a neat summary, but it reflects a particular perspective and
tends to be dismissive of possible alternative perceptions.

To go back to a core team, it seems obvious to me that the work of
formally describing the current status would be the fundamental core
function and I can't imagine anyone, not even an aspiring academic,
taking that on. Something along the lines of Nemo's commentary is just
too big a task today. And that is just the kernel...

Incidentally, does FreeBSD have a single distribution? I know NetBSD
does, but then FreeBSD and OpenBSD are forks from 386BSD through
NetBSD, and they share much, but have distinct identities. I tend to
think of 9front and 9legacy along similar lines.

I dream of "one Plan 9", but it is an immense and probably pointless exercise.

Lucio.

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