Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Crystal Kolipe would write on Sun Jun
15 09:21:14 2025:
>
> (*) Besides, if the concept was without merit, then Plan-9 would have failed
> as well.
>
If this was meant as sarcasm or irony, I don't get the joke. What can
you mean by saying "Plan-9 would have failed"? Plan 9 has failed.
I understand -- and even sympathize -- that the members of this
mailing list are not disposed to consider the statistic of what
proportion of computer users use an operating system. To consider
that statistic would make difficult the conclusion that OpenBSD is an
important and a thriving operating system.
Nevertheless, there has to be some point at which that statistic has
got to influence your thinking. An operating system that was invented
forty years ago, and that only three people in the world use, has got
to be considered a failed operating system.
I don't think that anyone is even still working on Plan 9. I have
9front installed on one of my computers, and it's okay, but I don't
need it for anything, and I don't use it for real work. I like SkyOS
too -- this is not a rhetorical figure, I really do -- but I can't
even install it on modern hardware, and if I could, I couldn't do
anything useful on it. And you may disdain the comparison of a toy
operating system to a serious operating system, but Plan 9, or even
9front, must at this point be also considered a toy operating system,
which has failed.
Jay F. Shachter
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