[geeks] Plan9 - anyone familiar with this?

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 21:10, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Liam,
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> Thanks for sharing your insights, much fodder for my google machine in future downtimes!

Oh, my pleasure!

I've always thought it was little short of a tragedy that the vast
breadth of UNIXes out there -- and yes, Linux is a UNIX™ now, it's on
the list:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

... all basically copy Research UNIX as it was around v7. It doesn't
even include the improvements in Research UNIX 8 or 9, let alone Plan
9, or Inferno,

Now it's FOSS, there is an opportunity here, if anyone were brave
enough -- and had the money to back it -- to do something genuinely
better.

What wasn't possible in the '80s and '90s was whole-system
virtualisation, which is almost trivial now. Most of the WWW runs on
virtualised systems, containers in VMs inside VMs.

These days it would be easy to run Linux, or BSD, as VMs under Plan 9
or Inferno. There is also a wide range of pseudovirtualised OSes (such
as CoLinux) and paravirtualised OSes (e.g. Xen guest OSes) and kernels
inside containers (e.g. Google gvisor).

In principle, it would be possible to build something around Plan 9
that was a smaller, simpler, faster Kubernetes than Kubernetes
itself... And finally move the OS state of the art on from where it's
been stuck by "good enough" for 30 years now.

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