On 14Nov27:2301-0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > David L. Craig wrote: > > > >>With the GUI out of the way, we can focus on the user-space system. > >>My proposals for that foundation are Plan 9 and Go (with C > >>for the performance parts). Actually, that was written by Marty <martyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. > ummm folks... before starting to chant "plan 9" it would behoove us to > understand what plan 9 actually is > > it's primarily an extension of core concepts, specifically: > - extending the concept of all objects as files or file systems > - incorporating network communications more thoroughly > - adding the notion of private namespaces > > it's a step beyond Unix, and a good one, but probably not a starting point > for "a more modular Debian ecosystem" Well, you can just recompile your favorite apps in it, certainly. Plan 9 is officially an R&D OS but it has acreted a lot of stable and amazingly straight-forward paradigms that work very well together. They kept what they considered the best of UNIX but tried out a lot of second-generation ideas that mostly turned out quite well (the /proc hierarchical filesystem and UTF-8, for example). The main Plan 9 flavors are Bell Labs, 9front, and Inferno. Don't be too quick to write it off, IMHO. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________
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