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.
