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Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by nix23 on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:42AM (#24373368)
You should try 9front (Plan9) it's kind of the evolution of the Unix philosophy.

http://9front.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by pjmlp on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:55AM (#24373454)
And afterwards try Inferno, which is what Plan 9 wanted to actually be like.

http://inferno-os.org/inferno/limbo.html

http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/

Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by lproven on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:25AM (#24375183)
I tend to share your thinking on this, although at least one knowledgeable online-imaginary-friend vigorously disagrees with me.

I have looked but failed to find a VM image or even images of installable media to build one online. If you know of any, I would like to know -- and if you don't know of any, but have the skills, I think you could do a big service to the OS research community by making and sharing either install media or a VM or both.

Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by pjmlp on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:41AM (#24375312)
The OS research community knows that it is located at http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/downloads.html.

Ever heard of search engines?

Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by nix23 on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:59AM (#24373477)
> which is what Plan 9 wanted to actually be like

No, not really can you proof that in any way?

Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by pjmlp on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:37AM (#24373696)
Yes, really.

It was developed by the same core team that created Plan 9, and Limbo is the evolution of Alef, that Rob Pike wasn't happy to have to drop for Plan 9 3rd edition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language)

> Alef appeared in the first and second editions of Plan 9, but was abandoned during development of the third edition.[1][2] Rob Pike later explained Alef's demise by pointing to its lack of automatic memory management, despite Pike's and other people's urging Winterbottom to add garbage collection to the language;[3]...

> The Limbo programming language can be considered a direct successor of Alef and is the most commonly used language in the Inferno operating system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

> Inferno was based on the experience gained with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and the further research of Bell Labs into operating systems, languages, on-the-fly compilers, graphics, security, networking and portability.

For some strange reason many stop at the middle station, instead of going all the way to the end.

Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994) by thekaleb on Friday September 04, 2020 @08:13AM (#24374228)
One of my favorite features of plan9 is how it handles the bin directory.

For one, you can have sub-directories inside the bin directory. This lends to a nice hierarchy of commands and encourages writing small single purpose commands instead of large monolith commands. An example of this is the `ip/ping` command.

Another feature uses the union file system which prevents me from having to mess with $PATH locating commands.