3 Jun
2014
3 Jun
'14
3:08 a.m.
On Mon 02 Jun 2014 at 11:52:12 PDT Dan Cross wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Brantley Coile
<[1]brantley(a)coraid.com>
wrote:
Isn't it part of the nostalgia?
Perhaps.
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?
The recent dustup over systemd does seem to have many people looking for
alternatives to the main Linux distros -- and perhaps to Linux itself.
There's an opportunity, but it isn't clear that anyone is prepared to
seize it.