From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Matt Senecal Message-ID: <9r783d$s5l$1@newpoisson.nosc.mil> Subject: [9fans] What makes Plan 9 unique? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:00:24 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0ce834ae-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I've been looking into Plan 9 for a while and may be asked to give a presentation on it for some people at work. This newsgroup has been a big help in getting my Plan 9 system (built 100% from donated & scrounged junk parts) up and running, so I thought I'd ask this question here: What makes Plan 9 truly unique? What about it makes it better than Solaris, or other UNIX systems? Imagine you're going to be giving the presentation to a bunch of long-time computer users whose main attitude going into the meeting is going to be: "Nice lines, but so what? Why should I consider Plan 9?" I understand that I'm going to be learning a lot of this on my own in the coming weeks, but I wanted to make sure that there wasn't some cool feature that I missed. There's only so much you can learn on a standalone system (although I may be networking with an old donated '486 if I can find some NICs).