It always amazes me that Plan 9, which is widely regarded as a joke OS, has continues to inspire new software with the different way it did just about everything.
I have P9 VM, and I have never quite understood what I am doing with it, but I keep hearing of developers borrowing from its codebase to make exciting new software.
I also find SSSPC and TempleOS to be entertaining OSs to explore, as they are so very different from the OSs I am used to.
I guess the joke name combined with the fact that the OS has never really been implemented in a serious capacity makes the whole thing seem kind of like a joke.
It's really an experimental OS that was designed as a proof of concept more than an actual product.
Nothing wrong with that, but if you find a computer running Plan 9 it's rarely for a good reason.
> the fact that the OS has never really been implemented in a serious capacity
I don't think that's true. It was briefly used as the OS for Lucent routers, wasn't it?
I think it was meant to be a serious OS, and I rather wish that it had taken off. Many of the problems of modern server systems simply don't exist with it.
I have P9 VM, and I have never quite understood what I am doing with it, but I keep hearing of developers borrowing from its codebase to make exciting new software.
I also find SSSPC and TempleOS to be entertaining OSs to explore, as they are so very different from the OSs I am used to.