Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

["Ethan A. Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 4:24 AM, 刘宇宝 wrote:
> 
> Recently I read Rob Pike's "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant", I 
> felt pity, and I was wondering what the operating system would look like 
> in the future,  here is my stupid optimistic predication:

I felt sad when I read it too, but like you, I hope the prevalence of KVM 
will bring a new wave of OS development. :)

> 
> 	• Server hardware will become extreme powerful,  TB DRAM, non-volatile 
> memory, NVMe disk, 100Gb ethernet, the paradigm of separate cpu server, 
> file server, (a little fat) terminals will come back to be mainstream,  
> network of piles of cheap PCs will go away.
> 	• Linux，even BSD，became the underlying device driver and "BIOS", this 
> is almost the current situation, Linux KVM, Xen + Linux dom0 hide 
> details of hardware. This layer takes care maximum hardware support and 
> raw performance.
> 	• *Distributed* operating systems above KVM/Xen will step into a period 
> of great development, hardware support and maximum raw performance are 
> not top priorities, *OS native* fault tolerance, simple and clear 
> distributed process scheduling, easy and consistent IPC/RPC API will 
> win, Google Kubernetes will die. Many ideas of Plan 9 will revive, just 
> like memory garbage collecting revived after about 30 years.
> 
> Regards,
> Yubao Liu
>