Driving Plan 9

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 23, 2006 @01:18AM from the because-you-can dept.

Glenda_lives_on writes "OSnews has an alternative OS review on Plan 9. Plan 9 is a research OS produced by Bell Labs. It was open sourced a few years back, and has enjoyed a revival of sorts. Los Alamos National Labs is continuing to favor Plan 9 for their new generation of super computing because its the fastest thing out there. I have downloaded and ran Plan 9 before. In fact the Plan 9 live cd sits here on my desk. Its not an operating system for noobs however, and lacks some graphical refinement. Plan 9 is a very cool and a interesting test drive however. Its definitely worth the price of admission (free) for exploring, and education."

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Re:Has to be asked... by Zeinfeld · 2006-07-23 01:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"You see! You see! Your stupid minds! STUPID! STUPID!"
Which pretty much sums up the mindset of the inventors, the 'needle in haystack' school of user experience design.
Genera did that sooo much better. An IQ test disguised as an operating system.
The lack of success of the successor tends to confirm the beleif that the success of Unix was a fluke due to marketting (it free!) rather than technical merit (you get what you paid for).

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