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Some of us think it was barely alive "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." - Rob Pike circa 1991
by konad 16y ago
Some of us think it was barely alive
"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." - Rob Pike circa 1991
- drdaeman 16y agoWhich is unfortunate, because Plan 9, while carrying some awesome "beyond-POSIX" ideas, was born dead. I think both GNU/Linux and Windows are not dead, just mature. Unfortunately, their maturity means it's really hard to teach them new tricks (for example, like non-hierarchical filesystems, which were recently discussed on HN), so, when considering all those fancy new (and sometimes not so new) ideas, those mature OSes certainly feel somehow old and limited.
- konad 16y agoPlan9 has a slowly growing community. One Plan9 product got $35m VC money this year - Coraid