Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, by Ori Bernstein

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Recommends lagniappe · 2024-07 · on “Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system”

Hey Ori :) I particularly enjoyed your video talk "not dead just resting" - thanks for everything you do [this video]

Cites drybjed · 2020-07 · on “Show HN: Dockerfiler: declarative management of images built from Dockerfiles”

> we need to throw away everything and start from scratch This has already happened back in the 1990s with Plan 9 from Bell Labs[1] and Inferno[2], but it didn't take due to various factors. With Docker and Kubernetes we are slowly wrangling the current Linux ecosystem to be more akin to Plan 9 environment with private namespaces and networked environment, with "compute" and "storage" servers. But the issues these tools are trying to fix and improve are buried deep in the stack, at the kernel level - fixing them would mean throwing away years of work put into Linux and starting almost from scratch. Plan 9 was definitely ahead of its time. The original authors learned from their UNIX choices

Cites iuguy · 2021-01 · on “A Week with Plan 9”

If you feel you have to tell me that your family is full of holocaust survivors before you tell me you're involved in a software distro, something is very wrong. This is software not biker gangs. I'm not judging you. I hope you understand that. One or two other people maybe, but not you. I've not called anyone a Nazi. I didn't commit Mein Kampf twice. I didn't put an Auschwitz joke in the manual. Neither did you. It was this[1] that convinced me to spend time with Plan 9. I've spoken to some really nice 9Front users and contributors. I've read and watched cool things by people like mycroft, Sigrid and yourself. Then at the other end of the scale there's this: ahem [LINK] And for shits and gi

Critical facorreia · 2019-12 · on “How I Switched to Plan 9”

”Is there support for playing video? No. (...) Watch this introductory video: [this video] I think I'll pass.