From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100223171241.GA28393@zoidberg.hsd1.mi.comcast.net> <8510af2691d75524af15774bc176295e@yyc.orthanc.ca> <10C27F86D0A8497D95F75EA90D1F0DB7@T3400> From: Rob Pike Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:22:11 +1100 Message-ID: <7359f0491002241222r4c888c6bp300dd86a8ace4341@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] What operating systems are the google guys using? Topicbox-Message-UUID: dadce520-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 What Russ says is true but for me it was simpler. I used Plan 9 as my local operating system for a year or so after joining Google, but it was just too inconvenient to live on a machine without a C++ compiler, without good NFS and SSH support, and especially without a web browser. I switched to Linux but found it very buggy (the main problem was most likely a bad graphics board and/or driver, but still) and my main collaborator (Robert Griesemer) had done the ground work to get a Mac working as a primary machine inside Google, and Russ had plan9port up, so I pushed plan9port onto the Mac and have been there ever since, quite happily. Nowadays Apples are officially supported so it's become easy, workwise. I miss a lot of what Plan 9 did for me, but the concerns at work override that. -rob