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The linked text is from the 90s. Not exactly news. But Plan 9 was a big improvement over Unix. Unfortunately, good things are often ignored.
by mseepgood 14y ago
The linked text is from the 90s. Not exactly news. But Plan 9 was a big improvement over Unix. Unfortunately, good things are often ignored.
- sp332 14y agoA lot of the ideas in Plan 9 were ported to Linux. UTF-8, the /proc filesystem, and the idea of union filesystems. Also Plan 9 is arguably better because of what's not in it http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsNotInPlanNine http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsNotInPlanNine
- 4ad 14y ago/proc in Linux is nothing like /proc in Plan 9 though. Not only that the exported files are completely different conceptually and in their internal format, but on Linux I can't bind /proc from another box and do remote debugging with tools that know nothing about where the process runs. Also Linux union mounts are clunky and not as useful as they are in Plan 9 because you can't have private namespaces if you are not root.
- juan_juarez 14y ago> Unfortunately, good things are often ignored ...which is why we're still using Unix.