From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Randolph Fritz Message-ID: References: , <919uta$3jfnv$1@ID-64718.news.dfncis.de> Subject: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:57:28 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3a2c1e2c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:49:14 GMT, Deztroyer-a1 wrote: >One thing I can be sure is that plan 9 won't be as popular as linux. It is >because the design on plan9; It is a distributed computing environment >rather than a client/server one. Be sure to check out the official web site >of plan 9, you might found some more interesting stuff on there. > >Future of plan 9? In my opinion, with a little modification on Plan 9, it'll >be great. However, plan 9 is just the same as concorde; not a very succesful >commerical product I think. However, I enjoy using plan 9 myself. It's a >little bit too "scientific" if it is to server as a commerical product. > I think that Plan 9 is an ideal platform for ubiquitous computing; I could easily imagine a Plan 9 server as the core of a household network. Inferno, based on similar technology, is working in telephone switches right now. It's also excellent for large, loosely-coupled multi-processor networks; when those are implemented using Linux, they invariably drown in excess (and costly) hardware. One of these days (but probably not soon, sigh) I want to make serious use of it in lighting modelling. Randolph