From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9 In-Reply-To: <196f381b.0402131109.6d2f28d4@posting.google.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:31:03 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e61722b0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I run Linux at the moment, but after finding out that Plan 9 exists, > and that it's the "true descendent" of unix, I just have to try it > out. it's not really a true descendant of Unix, or it would smell bad. Linux is a true descendant of Unix, and it does indeed smell bad. Plan 9 is tasty. But, as we have learned, not sweet. ron