Plan 9 OS

[hobbes2112]

Hey, sorry to those that read this in Tech Support, I am retarded and posted it in the wrong spot.

Anyway anyone use the Plan 9 OS? Comments on it?

If you have never heard of Plan 9 check it out here:
Plan 9 at Bell Labs

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[hobbes2112]

I'm trying to get this darn sig to work sorry for excessive posts and edits

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[port22]

I read through this paper here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html

And although the concept sounds pretty interesting, I don't think it is the kind of OS you'd use to get general day to day tasks done.

It appears to be built around a distributed kernel, which is hugely wasteful if you aren't distributing the functions across a number of networked nodes.

When I start hearing things like "The fundemental flaws of UNIX could not be fixed..." I know that I am dealing with something that is theoretically great, but practically useless. Maybe you'll get a bit out of it, but I don't think I would spend too much time on it.

You could check out EROS, now that is a really interesting concept. http://www.eros-os.org

[hobbes2112]

WOW that is a really heavy concept, do you run EROS?

edit: upon reading further into the faq I realized this is not an up and running OS yet...

I am pretty much a newbie on the non-microsoft OS front, but I am learning others at the moment...

P.S. Does anyone know how I can get my sig to look right without the code formating?
The spaces get chopped out if I just type it.

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[port22]

Originally posted by hobbes2112:
WOW that is a really heavy concept, do you run EROS?

edit: upon reading further into the faq I realized this is not an up and running OS yet...

I am pretty much a newbie on the non-microsoft OS front, but I am learning others at the moment...

P.S. Does anyone know how I can get my sig to look right without the code formating?
The spaces get chopped out if I just type it.

I tried to get it bootstrapping on a 386 a year or so ago. The concept sounded really interesting, but I didn't really have all that much luck. I'll give it another look when I have time.

If you are a newbie to non-MS OSs, I'd say go with something slightly less heavy, like a GNU/Linux distro, QNX(never used) or FreeBSD.

And you are fighting an uphill battle with that ascii art, as it needs to use a fixed width font.



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[hobbes2112]

when I say "newbie" I mean relative to a lot of people out there, I have Mandrake 8, Solaris 8 (Intel arch), and FreeBSD (4 maybe?) installed on various computers I own...

As for the sig, should I just kill it, or is there some relatively easy way to get fixed width font in there?

I cut and pasted it in there if that matters.



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[hobbes2112]

never mind about the sig, i just got rid of it, oh well I thought the fish would fit here...guess not

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[jtshaw]

Plan9 has some great concepts behind it but it lacks the neccesary tools for a usefull operating system. I don't think anyone ever intended on developing it for day to day use.

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[hobbes2112]

Yeah, but nobody thought Unix would be for everyday use at the start either.

hence the name...

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