3 Jun
2014
3 Jun
'14
1:10 a.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But nostalgia aside, something I find interesting (and
frankly a bit
distressing) is what seems to me to simply be an acceptance that it's all
going to end with Linux. That is to say, no one ever seems to talk about
what will come *after* Linux. Will Linus's kernel truly be the last kernel
anyone works on seriously? Somehow I very much doubt that. And yet, you
don't see a lot of talk about evolutionary paths beyond Linux; it's a sort
of tunnel vision.
For a while, it seemed like Plan 9 and/or Inferno could be the way forward,
but they seem to be all but dead. What will be the next step forward?
Brantley can tell you that Plan 9 isn't dead, although the Labs aren't
really providiing the "central control" that Steve mentioned and which
is so valuable.
There is even some innovation in the Plan 9 world, but much of it is
"researchy" - not something to run your enterprise on. (At least, not
without a few very sharp gurus handy.) It seems like Plan 9 has been
stuck somewhere between V7 and 4.3BSD in terms of "solidity" for many
years now. This is rather sad.
Arnold