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Are people using Plan9 for Real Work™? I've always found it inspiring in it's simplicity and orthogonality, but it's easier to be simple and orthogonal when you
by supersillyus 15y ago
Are people using Plan9 for Real Work™? I've always found it inspiring in it's simplicity and orthogonality, but it's easier to be simple and orthogonal when you aren't concerned with the last 10% of performance or compatibility with existing software, and I wonder if Plan9 sacrificed real world usefulness for conceptual purity.
- hollerith 15y agoOne of the national labs uses or has used Plan 9 for cluster computing. The leader of that effort is Ron Minnich.
- brcrth 15y agoRuss Cox still uses Plan9/Acme: http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/ http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/
- supersillyus 15y agoAccording to that (an interesting link, thanks), Russ uses Plan 9 from Userspace, which is similar in feel but still counts as running Linux for the purpose of my question, I think.
- anth 15y agoyes, people are. i use it daily (on top of p9p and 9vx). there are people building commercial products, using plan9 both for development and in the product itself. there are many research projects using it, including running it on some of the largest computers on the planet. it'd be hard (but not impossible) to use it to the exclusion of other things as a desktop today, because you can't get a very good native browser (there are workarounds, but they're all tough in different ways). there's lots of other environments where it makes great sense, though.