>>12It's insane to think, as someone who's never grown up exposed to anything besides Unix (other than Windows, but that's like comparing yourself to the slow kid in class who sat in the corner and ate paste), there was once a time when people considered Unix to be the
unstable, buggy of the bunch. Oh, how far the mighty fall
! Of course, much of what makes Unix appealing now are, in fact, the amendments made to Unix in the form of stuff like d-trace and GNU.
It's also weird to think that we've strayed so far from the true Unix model in this post-Unix era that there are Unix traditionalists cropping out of the woodwork in the form of BSD hobbyists and Suckless advocates. Just strange. And while said reactionaries are working on perfecting their ultra-minimal, ultra-Unix-ey DE's and OS's and whatever, more and more of the World's infrastructure is embracing non-Unix solutions as improving hardware permits it.
These are just pedestrian observations, from an outsider, mind you, but isn't it interesting (and, yes, I know I'm preaching to a choir) how the ivory tower plan9 project failed? Many former plan9 contributors and associated it chock it up to the cancerous GPL virus--and I wouldn't dismiss them entirely, if anyone's to dismiss the GPL, I think they have the most right of all of us, even if they aren't right--but perhaps it was simply that the existing solution, Linux, was
good enough, and, thus, in a more evolutionarily optimal place?