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Linux is better. In comparison, Plan 9 is like primordial soup, whereas Linux is an advanced alien life from from the future. There are so many parts of Linux
by illumen 13y ago
Linux is better. In comparison, Plan 9 is like primordial soup, whereas Linux is an advanced alien life from from the future.
There are so many parts of Linux that are far better than Plan 9, and polished for production work loads. Real life solutions are sometimes messy, and take many evolutions to get right.
Sure, elegant and simple maths is good. But if the maths is just wrong, and doesn't work, then the more complicated maths that actually works is better.
- synchronise 13y agoI would lean towards the opposite. Plan 9 is a creature that was designed well from day one, but initially limited by restrictive licensing. Linux is probably one of the largest hack and slash jobs in programming history, but it was available under very free and liberal terms from the beginning and development was open to everyone, hence it garnered more community support and as a result was more successful.
- chipaca 13y agoWhich is why MySQL. And now, MongoDB.
- jacquesm 13y agoLinux is not better. Linux looks better, feels better and so on but under the hood it is just a rehash of the predecessor of plan 9. I'm using linux every day on both my desktop and a whole army of servers and I have some experience with both plan 9 and other (micro kernel based) systems. Linux (and in fact all Unix flavours) have some systemic problems that those other os variants attempt to address. That the user experience is less polished does not detract from that. Maths don't enter into it. To re-phrase your analogy: Linux is a crocodile, it is ancient, dangerous and well adapted to its environment. So well adapted that it is a force to be reckoned with, even if you're an advanced creature from the future.