hello, (i really thing this shouldn't happen in a dev list)
> > So my question to you is: > > how do you put Linux and Plan9 into this scala? > > (I get the feeling you deliberately don't want to understand my > > question.) you are (deliberately?) elusive with your question so Laslo was (deliberately?) elusive in his anwser. nevertheless, he already replied. so i try my way: you can compare those two OS only thru perspectives. * linux is a unix clone (so flaws in the design, including symlinks) are cloned too. * linux is a side project that became the most used unix kernel of the world, supporting a lot of hardware and providing a stable ABI no matter what (thanks to linus's opiniated point of view). so yes ... it has history and this shows on the codebase. plan9 was a research os to fix the design flaws of unix but didn't evolve that much since it was abandonned then publicly released. so ... * design and code are much more cleaner and consistent and remained that way. * tools are probably the state of art of 90's (good starting point to reinvent the computer tech because everything went terribly wrong since then) * on the other hand, it works on very few hardware and lack of tools for modern usage. the question is: what do you need to compare them? what's your goal? if it's considering using one or another, that's the way i would use plan9: * as a deskop os on tiny hardware if you don't mind the lack of tools * as a virtual machine in a qemu to provide distributed services also when i talk about plan9, i think about recent evolutions of it like harvey os or 9front (i have to admit i don't know about the others). > The same point applies to Linux: I use Linux on my personal computer > and OpenBSD on my servers. +1 > I think OpenBSD is the best trade-off +1 > however, even it fails to fit all my use-cases. can you be specific ? regards marc
