From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com) Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:10:14 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck') In-Reply-To: References: <201406020209.s5229Q5o006174@stowe.cs.dartmouth.edu> <59D01DBF-EF49-45B8-8F80-FA03E644A528@tfeb.org> <20140602144105.GO18282@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <201406021910.s52JAEMM025574@freefriends.org> Dan Cross wrote: > But nostalgia aside, something I find interesting (and frankly a bit > distressing) is what seems to me to simply be an acceptance that it's all > going to end with Linux. That is to say, no one ever seems to talk about > what will come *after* Linux. Will Linus's kernel truly be the last kernel > anyone works on seriously? Somehow I very much doubt that. And yet, you > don't see a lot of talk about evolutionary paths beyond Linux; it's a sort > of tunnel vision. > > For a while, it seemed like Plan 9 and/or Inferno could be the way forward, > but they seem to be all but dead. What will be the next step forward? Brantley can tell you that Plan 9 isn't dead, although the Labs aren't really providiing the "central control" that Steve mentioned and which is so valuable. There is even some innovation in the Plan 9 world, but much of it is "researchy" - not something to run your enterprise on. (At least, not without a few very sharp gurus handy.) It seems like Plan 9 has been stuck somewhere between V7 and 4.3BSD in terms of "solidity" for many years now. This is rather sad. Arnold