my Plan 9 environment is the only one that i feel i know and have control
over; i don't feel the same about my (Canonical's) ubuntu desktop, my
(Google's) chromebook, my (Apple's) macbook, my (T-Mobile/Google's) android
phone, etc, etc, precisely because of auto-update.  i appreciate that they
want to be my sysadm, but it means that i'm no longer an informed consumer.


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:41 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a different perspective. There are millions of chromebooks out
> there updating all the time, from the firmware to the kernel to the
> root file system to everything. It all works.
>
> If you are telling me that the upgrade technology of Plan 9 can not
> handle an automatic upgrade, fine; we have the proof.
>
> If you are telling me Plan 9 should not or never will be able to
> handle an automatic upgrade, and is going to require a heads up email
> for each kernel change, I have a hard time taking that seriously.
>
> This is not a human communication problem. It's a technology problem,
> trivially solved for many years now by many systems.
>
> ron
>
>