Re: [9fans] Re: new release?

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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Haven't been any huge changes in the recent past.  Factotum
and a lot of the security stuff happened 2 years ago. The earliest
deadline first scheduler has recently stabilized enough to depend
on.  Tools keep changing as people add features to them.  We base
the install on a new file system, fossil, last year.

We don't number releases at all since stuff changes everyday and
we cut a new installation image daily.  The latter is done
automaticly if anything has changed on the sources machine.
That machine is mountable by anyone using plan 9.

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From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: new release?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:10:39 -0800
Message-ID: <20040225211039.GC83490@cassie.foobarbaz.net>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:59:05AM +0400, David Tolpin wrote:
>
> While I agree that flickering version numbers of some other systems
> are just indications of shaky designs, 'stable' differs from 'stalled'
> by just two letters. I've read a lot about Plan9, I've played with
> it and used it to port a couple of programs (not of general interest);
> but I am now trying to understand is it live, or just elegant?

it's as alive as you want it to be. there are a number
of people that use it daily, and a few that use it for
development and develop for it. i don't see the
relevance of the question, really. people are frequently
quick to announce the demise of this or that piece of
software. who cares. if you like the system, and you
want to contribute, then use it and contribute.
otherwise, go use another system.

personally, i like the simplicity and elegance of
plan9, so i use it and develop for it when i have time.

just my $0.02.

--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin