Because Bell Labs is effectively dead, and stopped paying people to work on it.
Quoth _ resun <[email protected]>: > from http://9legacy.org/intro.html << EOF > > Is Plan 9 from Bell Labs still maintained? > > Since January 2015, Plan 9 is officially no longer maintained at Bell Labs. > The latest change and CD image was published on January 10, 2015. > > Because of this, 9legacy is now more a continuation of Plan 9 from Bell Labs > <https://9p.io/plan9/> rather than an aternative distribution. > EOF > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Why is Plan9 no longer maintained? > > Well, I have been interested in this thing for years. I tried to install it > back in 2021 and gave up after a couple attempts (I was an 18 y/o little > kid with no knowledge about low level and os related stuff). Upon failing, > I decided to use it inside VirtualBox [which clearly does not feel real]. > > Now, I'm trying to install it again. First issue I encountered, >>It Only > Supports Legacy Boot<<. Luckily, my pc is old enough to have Legacy Boot > support. I was able to boot into the USB but then I encountered some > different issues [unresolved]. > > Being so determined to get it working on my pc, I was crazily surfing the > internet and came across that part in the 9legacy website. 9legacy Seems to > be a cool project. I loved it, and I want to contribute to it (for which I > would definitely need a working Plan9)! But the question is why isn't Plan9 > itself maintained. I bet, many issues in Plan9 could be solved with the > help of 9legacy. Support for UEFI could be implemented. And Many Other > Things! > > Thanks! > > _resun ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T890036c2d2a0025e-M92241feaf1a1e4cfd8dae469 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
