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Holy Shitbags Binaries Are Static And *Huge*

but they fork faster. try it: http://9fans.net/archive/2009/02/422

There's also an older long discussion

I link to that version of it rather than google groups because Linus has X-No-archive as a mail header - the chicken shit bastard

You forgot us :)

prior art from 1986 Plan 9 V 1.0

I always think when I see things like this, we are moving more and more to something like the ideas of
Linux NOW.

GNU was supposed to be a drop in replacement for Unix. Plan9 was supposed to be the successor. But what would the FSF replacement for Plan9 be?

GONE: GNU (GNU's Not Unix) Or (Plan) Nine Either. See http://9fans.net/archive/2003/04/8/.

Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the OS for people with good taste.

You are referring to Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka "utah2000"), but I think you miss the point, just because Unix being "good enough" killed all progress doesn't mean that it was a good thing, quite the contrary.

And BTW, Plan 9 has a Unix compatible subsystem called APE(A Posix Environment), but it is rarely used, because Unix is 30 years rotten shit, and all that was worthwhile keeping from Unix has been in Plan 9 from the start, all that others have added to Unix in the last 30 years have been hacks by people that never understood Unix and its philosophy.

The true Unix spirit is still alive and well, in Plan 9, but not in any of the bastard sons of Unix or its numerous clones.