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Who thinks of Plan 9 as a "joke OS"? It's obscure, sure, and has a jokey name, but is hardly a joke itself.
by abrowne 9y ago
Who 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.