From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:39:08 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20100217173907.GB17100@nibiru.local> References: <20100216164550.GA8621@nibiru.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 ezine Topicbox-Message-UUID: d52b8424-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * EBo wrote: > Actually, explaining that in an ezine would make a wonderful article. > Actually if I had time I think we could post a half dozen or more references > which basically explain this as why Plan 9 was designed and developed in the > first place. ACK. And that should really explain *why* the Plan9 approach (to me, personally, that's not the OS itself, but the concepts like synthetic filesystems behind it) are better. I'd also like to have that ezine as a place for presenting ideas, even those which aren't implemented yet. For example, I often use idle times (like right now ;-)) to think about how bloaty things in the GNU/Linux world (from relatively little things like some virtualized devices up to whole desktop environments) could be done much better the Plan9 way. Unfortunately I don't have thet time to implement all these ideas which float around my head. So I'd like at least present them to the world, so hopefully one picks up some. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------