Re: [9fans] questions about 9atom and 9legacy; and their updates

Thanks, David, for the answers. > That said, now that Plan 9 is not as actively maintained > as it used to be, 9legacy might move to his own > full distribution. Are then 9legacy and 9atom too apart to somehow "merge" them? Ruda

Re: [9fans] questions about 9atom and 9legacy; and their updates

> I haven't ever use 9vx. In what sense you find it more useful than > 9front? 9vx is really just a kernel, so you can use 9vx with any of the Plan 9, 9atom or 9front user space. Also, 9vx have a different purpose than a Plan 9 installation. For example, you can use 9vx on top of Linux, as a term

Re: [9fans] questions about 9atom and 9legacy; and their updates

On 19 December 2014 at 04:11, da Tyga wrote: > You could also consider 9vx especially if you are tempted to try running > under Qemu or some other virtualised environment. > Although I'm only at the exploratory stage, I find 9vx more useful than > 9front. Well, I'd really like to try p9 proper ag

Re: [9fans] questions about 9atom and 9legacy; and their updates

Thank you for the clarification, I was puzzling over similar issues. You could also consider 9vx especially if you are tempted to try running under Qemu or some other virtualised environment. Although I'm only at the exploratory stage, I find 9vx more useful than 9front. I

Re: [9fans] questions about 9atom and 9legacy; and their updates

> 1) How often does Bell Lab's version change? How often/well > do patches from 9legacy enter BL's version? Some numbers? There used to be changes on sources almost every day, up to March 2014. Now the latest change is from September 17. Most of the 9legacy changes where included into Plan 9. Unf

[9fans] questions about 9atom and 9legacy; and their updates

Hello, I've been recently reconsidering employment of plan9. And (probably like many others) I find myself indecisive about whom to follow. It seems that the most conservative option is Bell Labs (BL). Then, still in sync, there is 9legacy. Slightly separate there is 9atom, and finally there is 9f