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It always amazes me that Plan 9, which is widely regarded as a joke OS, has continues to inspire new software with the different way it did just about everythin
by RIMR 9y ago
It always amazes me that Plan 9, which is widely regarded as a joke OS, has continues to inspire new software with the different way it did just about everything.
I have P9 VM, and I have never quite understood what I am doing with it, but I keep hearing of developers borrowing from its codebase to make exciting new software.
I also find SSSPC and TempleOS to be entertaining OSs to explore, as they are so very different from the OSs I am used to.
- abrowne 9y agoWho thinks of Plan 9 as a "joke OS"? It's obscure, sure, and has a jokey name, but is hardly a joke itself.
- RIMR 9y agoI guess the joke name combined with the fact that the OS has never really been implemented in a serious capacity makes the whole thing seem kind of like a joke. It's really an experimental OS that was designed as a proof of concept more than an actual product. Nothing wrong with that, but if you find a computer running Plan 9 it's rarely for a good reason.
- eadmund 9y ago> the fact that the OS has never really been implemented in a serious capacity I don't think that's true. It was briefly used as the OS for Lucent routers, wasn't it? I think it was meant to be a serious OS, and I rather wish that it had taken off. Many of the problems of modern server systems simply don't exist with it.