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What could have been :-9

Oh Plan 9 should have become the new UNIX but was (in retrospect) incorrectly licenced way back in the day. By the time it was "open sourced" there was a general lack of interest, awareness and no community except some interesting work done at a few universities around the world (particulaly in Spain).
Maybe Plan 9's biggest problem was that it was too much a of a research project with great ideas and sketchy goals/implementation.

The best we can hope for is that many of the ideas that were ahead of their time bear fruit in other OS's and BSD and Linux have some of those Implemented here and there (/proc..etc)
The one thing that is worrying about the 9P protocol would be the complex rewrite needed to fix possible authentication bugs if that came about.

As for the future of UNIX, Linux will take care of that.

Posted by: junknstuff@...   Posted on: 03/20/09  (Edited: 03/20/2009 @ 05:55) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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