From: Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:22:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YebpOBCMYC3lqn1D@beryllium.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16424657580.fe246AE3F.762336@composer.9fans.topicbox.com>
Quoth Matt:
>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.
The subreddit, except there is no “the subreddit”. Just another place
where people who don’t know Plan 9 ask people who don’t know Plan 9
about whatever they currently think Plan 9 is.
In the wild, I see more people talking about plan9port than about Plan 9.
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Humm
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-18 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-17 22:04 matthpmoreira
2022-01-17 22:41 ` Humm
2022-01-17 23:04 ` ori
2022-01-17 23:18 ` Matt
2022-01-17 23:22 ` ori
2022-01-17 23:31 ` Matt
2022-01-17 23:36 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2022-01-18 0:29 ` Matt
2022-01-18 0:33 ` hiro
2022-01-18 16:22 ` Humm [this message]
2022-01-18 18:54 ` Antonio Barrones
2022-01-18 19:55 ` Humm
2022-01-18 20:48 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-01-18 22:16 ` vic.thacker
2022-01-18 22:59 ` Duke Normandin
2022-01-18 0:47 ` Kurt H Maier via 9fans
2022-01-18 4:38 ` Andrew Back
2022-01-18 0:20 ` Thaddeus Woskowiak
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