From: cloud@nine.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:44:02 -0500 (EST)   
   kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   > >On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:57:03 +0000, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Wot no Plan 9?   
   > >   
   > >What exactly does Plan9 get you?   
   >   
   > The ability to have as much stuff as possible running outside the kernel   
   > ring.  The more stuff you can kick out of the kernel, the less stuff there   
   > is which can cause catastrophic failure when things go wrong.   
   >   
   > OSX started out adapting some of the Plan9 philosophy but it mostly turned   
   > into bloat and the current OSX kernel looks nothing like a classic   
   microkernel.   
   >   
   > There are also some distributed processing features built into Plan9.  To   
   > be honest I don't think those are really of much benefit in the modern   
   > environment but they are pretty ingenious.   
   > --scott   
      
   Some of the ideas in plan9 are useful. However, the plan9 project fails to   
   provide a coherent and intutive GUI, editor, web browser, and file browser   
   that are ready to use out of the box. It is too arcane for mere mortals to   
   even try to use.   
      
   Having great ideas does no good when one must have a compsci PhD as a bar to   
   entry.   
      
   As with Linux and Linux distros, the project is more about promoting the   
   project than providing something for people to improve their work flow.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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