[9fans] Compare Plan9/Linux/xxxBSD

[9fans] Compare Plan9/Linux/xxxBSD

[bad_packet]

Hi All,



  Just heard about Plan 9, and was wondering if anyone would
care to take a stab at explaining the differences between it,
Linux, and the versions of BSD.

I realize Plan 9 is basically a significant refinement of Unix,
with much/all(?) of the basic code having been rewritten.  Have
read some of the documentation, however still a bit fuzy on "why"
one would use it over either super stable BSD, or the up and
coming, ever improving Linux distro's.

Or, is this simply more a technology demo, sort of an academic
exercise. Not sure if Bell has plans for this, as Inferno sems to
have wrt interactive video.

Thanks in advance.

Fred

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[9fans] Re: Compare Plan9/Linux/xxxBSD

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

bad_packet wrote:
> ...  Have read some of the documentation, however still a bit
> fuzy on "why" one would use it ...

If you read the introductory paper that is the first one in Vol.
2 of the documentation (available on-line at the Plan 9 Web site)
and still don't see its advantages, then probably you'd be
wasting your time worrying any further about it.

John Carmack has been quoted as calling Plan 9 "achingly beautiful"..