From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: corky1951@comcast.net (Charlie Kester) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:08:15 -0700 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: <20140602210815.GA25138@comcast.net> On Mon 02 Jun 2014 at 11:52:12 PDT Dan Cross wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Brantley Coile <[1]brantley at coraid.com> > wrote: > > Isn't it part of the nostalgia? > > Perhaps. > 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? The recent dustup over systemd does seem to have many people looking for alternatives to the main Linux distros -- and perhaps to Linux itself. There's an opportunity, but it isn't clear that anyone is prepared to seize it.