> [...] Nix is > not a personal project. It's listed right there on the lsub page
one thing seems to be missed is that nix is the name for at least two independent projects. a brief history. this is the best of my understanding. please correct me if i haven't credited folks properly. i am sure there are bits i don't know. at one time there was unified open development on google code (or whatever site it was). this was based on the 9k work. some of the participants felt that this wasn't working out due to differences in direction, and the fact that hg was a pain. so this split into a project called NxM and nix, which was hosted at lsub using a patch-like process. but lsub was interested in some disruptive changes, and there was a conflicting desire for a kernel to replace the 386 kernel. so i moved this 386-replacement kernel into 9atom. we run exactly this code every day on ~32 machines. 9atom accepts patches (see /n/atom/plan9/rc/bin/apatch), there is a mailing list for changes (sour...@9atom.org) or if you prefer /n/atom/patch. > > there is no private nix development going on > > Let's quote something from a recent nix paper: > > "We are grateful to Charles Forsyth for his advice regarding this > work, and to the new Plan 9 secret society." > > Ahem. *WOOSH*. this is an obvious joke. see e.g. http://9fans.net/archive/2006/06/18 either that or you're just trolling. - erik
