Re:My first steps in plan 9
by supersillyus on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @12:03PM
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Are people using Plan9 for Real Work™? I've always found it inspiring in it's simplicity and orthogonality, but it's easier to be simple and orthogonal when you aren't concerned with the last 10% of performance or compatibility with existing software, and I wonder if Plan9 sacrificed real world usefulness for conceptual purity.
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yes, people are. i use it daily (on top of p9p and 9vx). there are people building commercial products, using plan9 both for development and in the product itself. there are many research projects using it, including running it on some of the largest computers on the planet.
it'd be hard (but not impossible) to use it to the exclusion of other things as a desktop today, because you can't get a very good native browser (there are workarounds, but they're all tough in different ways). there's lots of other environments where it makes great sense, though.
Russ Cox still uses Plan9/Acme: http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/
Re:My first steps in plan 9
by supersillyus on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @01:27PM
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According to that (an interesting link, thanks), Russ uses Plan 9 from Userspace, which is similar in feel but still counts as running Linux for the purpose of my question, I think.