Re: Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

"David L. Craig" <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:34:53 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.os.plan9.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 19Nov24:0830-0800, [email protected] wrote:

> >> The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io.  It
> >> doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015.
> > 
> > Please look more closely:
> > 
> > cpu% srv -n 9p.io sources /n/sources
> 
> Usually, that's not what people mean when they
> say 'site'.
> 
> It's good to see patches being posted, but for
> someone who is interested in experimenting with
> plan 9 for the first time, it's not clear that
> these exist, let alone which are important.
> 
> Actually, you know what, I should put my money
> where my mouth is. Would there be objections to
> me going through and fixing the links in the
> wiki so they point to 9p.io?
> 
> Is there anyone who would be comfortable explaining
> to me exactly the relationship between 9p.io and
> 9legacy, as well as how people are expected to use
> the two, so that I can put that into the wiki?
> 
> Is there anywhere that people would be comfortable
> blessing as a source for building new ISO images,
> to put behind the download link, with the accepted
> patches integrated?
> 
> (Yes, I do use 9front, but I'm not religious. I'd
> be happy to take some time to improve labs, too.
> I also hate people who complain without doing the
> work to improve things.)
> 
> > "Usable" is a function of who's doing the using.
> > I use the Labs version every day and it does what
> > I need.
> 
> The impression I got was that many users (in the
> 9front world, at least) have a system patched
> to their desires, and don't run things fully
> vanilla, direct from the ISO.

Over five years ago I was compelled to stop work on my
cookbook for newbies to implement a working Plan 9 virtual
server with a drawterm interface on a GNU/Linux platform
supporting virtual machines.  I have received one email
from someone who successfully got started thereby and it's
still available at http://dlcusa.net/vp9cb-9pio, but after
reading this thread, I wonder if it's worth the effort to
get back to it eventually and finish the job.
-- 
<not cent from sell>
May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!

Dave_Craig______________________________________________
"So the universe is not quite as you thought it was.
 You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.
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