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Plan 9 was a great OS. And it did fix a lot of these problems (although I don't know if it fixed this particular one). But it turns out that what we have is g
by cmccabe 13y ago
Plan 9 was a great OS. And it did fix a lot of these problems (although I don't know if it fixed this particular one).
But it turns out that what we have is good enough, and it never gained traction.
- nknighthb 13y agoI don't entirely agree with that characterization. I believe Plan 9 offers fundamental technical advantages that would interest a small but significant and sustainable population of users and developers, and that it's not the inertia of other platforms that it can't overcome, but itself. Its user experience is utter crap, a combination of poor/lack of design and annoying idiosyncrasies by certain of its developers. It's a research platform, and no real effort has been made to turn it into something more practical. If someone were to pick it up and turn it into something people wouldn't hate using, I think we'd see a community on par with NetBSD or OpenBSD.