From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] design issues in operating systems
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Date: Mon,  3 Dec 2001 08:24:29 -0700
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, josh d wrote:

>   Considering the popularity of Linux vs the popularity of Plan9, he may
> have a point.  Think about the issues and don't automatically descriminate
> because he said something you dislike.

I'm not sure it's a fair experiment. Plan 9 made it to "market" ten years
after Linux . Still worse, from 1991-2000 ATT/Lucent were actively trying
to kill it (though I doubt their management saw it that way ...).

I'm kind of hating life with Linux 2.4 series kernels. I keep thinking,
"if only I could just cut over to Plan 9 ...".

It is easy to make a case that Linux was not designed.

ron