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Plan 9 could pull this off seamlessly. Each program window is a folder tree, so moving the window to the external screen would be as simple as remounting it on

by ColanR 7y ago

Plan 9 could pull this off seamlessly. Each program window is a folder tree, so moving the window to the external screen would be as simple as remounting it on the remote server. Plan 9 is designed for that and does it trivially. The file tree paradigm also means that standard UNIX permissions apply.

pedrocx486 7y ago
>as simple as remounting it on the remote server Don't think the common enduser would agree with that.
- ColanR 7y ago
  Obviously that would get wrapped up in a user-friendly UI. My point is that the backend would be straightforward.
notyourday 7y ago
Except Plan9 is a design pipedream that got shredded on the first encounter with reality which is why it has less of a penetration even in a geek community than BeOS. The largest use case for something from Plan9 is 9P transport used by QEMU to share host folders with guests.
- laumars 7y ago
  The two platforms are targeting different audiences and solving different problems so I don't think it really pays to compare them. For example Plan 9 was released in a market where UNIX was already successful and "good enough". So it was always going to be a tough sell. Whereas BeOS was released in an era when desktop OSs totally sucked (NT wasn't yet ready for home users, Windows 9x was an unstable mess, Mac OS 8 and 9 were even worse than Win 9x, Linux wasn't even remotely ready for the casual user and Atari / Amiga dead and becoming increasingly irrelevant in all but a few niche scenes). Even at that time it felt like desktop operating systems sucked and then along came BeOS and proved just how much better things could be. It felt light years ahead of the competition and yet still failed (I'm not bitter at all!) It's also worth noting that Plan 9 did go on to influence UNIX and Linux quite a lot since. So while 9P transport might superficially feel like the only Plan 9 tool to survive (it's not because people do use other stuff like ACME), there's a lot of Plan 9's influence in modern *nix too (eg FUSE).
  - anthk 7y ago
    You forgot procfs and unicode.
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    - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
      if by 'unicode' you mean 'utf-8'.

by ColanR 7y ago

pedrocx486 7y ago

>as simple as remounting it on the remote server Don't think the common enduser would agree with that.

ColanR 7y ago
Obviously that would get wrapped up in a user-friendly UI. My point is that the backend would be straightforward.

notyourday 7y ago

Except Plan9 is a design pipedream that got shredded on the first encounter with reality which is why it has less of a penetration even in a geek community than BeOS. The largest use case for something from Plan9 is 9P transport used by QEMU to share host folders with guests.

laumars 7y ago
The two platforms are targeting different audiences and solving different problems so I don't think it really pays to compare them. For example Plan 9 was released in a market where UNIX was already successful and "good enough". So it was always going to be a tough sell. Whereas BeOS was released in an era when desktop OSs totally sucked (NT wasn't yet ready for home users, Windows 9x was an unstable mess, Mac OS 8 and 9 were even worse than Win 9x, Linux wasn't even remotely ready for the casual user and Atari / Amiga dead and becoming increasingly irrelevant in all but a few niche scenes). Even at that time it felt like desktop operating systems sucked and then along came BeOS and proved just how much better things could be. It felt light years ahead of the competition and yet still failed (I'm not bitter at all!) It's also worth noting that Plan 9 did go on to influence UNIX and Linux quite a lot since. So while 9P transport might superficially feel like the only Plan 9 tool to survive (it's not because people do use other stuff like ACME), there's a lot of Plan 9's influence in modern *nix too (eg FUSE).
- anthk 7y ago
  You forgot procfs and unicode.
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  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    if by 'unicode' you mean 'utf-8'.