Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distributed systems

Re:Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distrib... by mveety on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:27AM (#11728203)

No it hasn't. There's a ton of cool shit that hasn't been invented yet. What's stopping research is (as rob more or less states) researchers want to make a usable system more than they want to make an interesting or innovative one. It's going to happen again someday. It has to, a gaping hole like this will get filled in.

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Re:Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distrib... by sirtaj on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:36AM (#11728451)

Also, in the sixteen years since then some of the core Plan 9 ideas like network block devices, union filesystems, user-space/user-managed mount points and other use of namespaces have indeed made it into other OSes.

Perhaps not with the purity that the Plan 9 developers hoped for, but in the end we use computers to get work done.

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Re:Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distrib... by pjc50 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:57AM (#11729491)

Systems which aren't usable don't get used, and so the research stays in the lab.

OS choice is a market dominance issue.

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Re:Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distrib... by mveety on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:09PM (#11735022)

The goal for a research OS isn't market dominance or to have users. It's to test ideas.

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