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Interesting, one of my buddies (abdge on HN) ported Plan 9 to Gentoo in 2011. http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~rps/plan9/ http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~rps/plan9/ It d
by lettergram 12y ago
Interesting, one of my buddies (abdge on HN) ported Plan 9 to Gentoo in 2011.
http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~rps/plan9/ http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~rps/plan9/
It doesn't really seem "dead" (though close to it), it's interesting to me that even 6 years after this post Plan 9 was still being ported.
To be honest, a fair amount of the good features have been ported from Plan 9 into Linux. I don't bother using Plan 9 personally because it doesn't have a lot of the support I need, and many Linux distros support what I need.
However, if there more general support I would definitely use it, it's pretty slick.
- pmoriarty 12y agoYou link to "a Plan 9-inspired userspace on top of a Gentoo base system", which was preceded by plan9port.[1][2] But they're only a (admittedly important, but insufficient) subset of the Plan 9 operating system. [1] - http://swtch.com/plan9port/ http://swtch.com/plan9port/ [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space