I envy this. In an Iceberg OS chart I presume this would be the darkest depths. But I am not hat read up on what OSes are out there, so...
Plan 9 is such a beautifully weird mixture of ideas... God I love it so much.
The emptiness is so stark that it feels comforting.
http://9front.org/img/what.jpgTry it someday. Seriously.
I envy this. In an Iceberg OS chart I presume this would be the darkest depths. But I am not hat read up on what OSes are out there, so...
If I were to guess there's probably less than 500 active users. I could be totally off on this because I'm sure not all users are on the internet but there's no way there's many more than that.
It's a best kept secret. There's a few other ones that I know of that are less used but basically Plan 9 is nonexistent. I genuinely think the only reason I know about it is because its fans are so incredibly vocal about how nice it is. I have become one of them.
Unfortunately I know why it died. I'm a technical person but even I have trouble setting up some stuff. I am not a fan of abstractions but I'm also less of a fan of complexity. Plan 9 is incredibly simple, and that is through some abstractions. Unfortunately I feel like there's still some work to do. I plan on making a few basic tools that make life with it easier (calendar, reminders, etc.) and also a few scripts that make it way easier to setup how you want. Sorry for the tangent.
Plan 9 is ~°The Best!°~
I agree. I'm trying to get to a point where I use nothing else but it... also trying to move to a dumb phone as well. Both combined are basically exactly all I need
I've been trying to put into words why I like the system: It's simple, it's slick, it's rather minimal.... I think a system that doesn't boast much, that provides one with just enough to take it from there and build one's own workflow from a set of primitives, in this case all revolving around text and filesystem abstractions... I find that to be a nice, refreshing alternative to the sprawling complexity of modern unix systems, and the overwhelming choice of programming languages, environments, editors, IDEs, window managers, everything bringing an ecosystem of it's own, carrying millions of lines of code, bringing a bunch of solutions that are so general they don't quite always fit my needs, and require me to go browse documentation in any of a number of different formats from man to texinfo to html5....
I think it's also a splendid language for writers. I just need to build a few tools of my own, such as a gemini client, which I hope should not be too difficult and an edifying endeavour.
In my first post in the pub, I mentioned in passing my intention to make plan9 my primary OS, and I still hold on to that thought. Actually, now might just be the time, maybe I can dust off my old little hackerbook and install plan9 on it (again), and give it a run.