* [9fans] Plan 9 over Linux?
@ 2004-03-01 10:35 Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-03-01 11:05 ` Geoff Collyer
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From: Joel Konkle-Parker @ 2004-03-01 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Admittedly, I haven't tried Plan9 (other than the installer), but I've
read a lot on the website. But I'm still somewhat confused: what is
the benefit of Plan 9 over, say, Linux? What's different?
I've read that everything's a file... ok, that's great, but what's the
benefit in that? Is that the only improvement?
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Joel Konkle-Parker
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E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu]
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* Re: [9fans] Plan 9 over Linux?
2004-03-01 10:35 [9fans] Plan 9 over Linux? Joel Konkle-Parker
@ 2004-03-01 11:05 ` Geoff Collyer
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From: Geoff Collyer @ 2004-03-01 11:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Plan 9 isn't Unix, it's a distributed system built from the ground up
to run over varied networks, to provide good fast graphics capability,
to provide permanent storage with daily views available, and to
exploit shared-memory multiprocessors, all unlike Unix. See
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/plan9.html for a longer answer.
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