lklfuse

Posted May 31, 2018 7:55 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: lklfuse by phh
Parent article: Unprivileged filesystem mounts, 2018 edition

Funny how, the more Linux advances, the more it resembles Plan 9.

lklfuse

Posted May 31, 2018 10:03 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link] (3 responses)

It's heartening to know that 'those that don't learn from history end up reinventing UNIX' has moved on to reinventing what the UNIX team invented next: everything-is-a-file plus programs-are-servers is 9P and has similarities in any message-passing distributed system, notably microservices in containers.

K3n.

lklfuse

Posted Jun 7, 2018 7:08 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

That's always felt pretty arrogant to me.

Pr1mos was a Multics derivative, and I've always felt that in MANY ways it was better than Unix. Unix (in the form of BSD) just happened to be free, and gained traction, and well we all know that "the good enough is the enemy of the best".

Cheers,
Wol

lklfuse

Posted Jun 8, 2018 15:03 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Also being free, and more-or-less portable, and not having PR1ME's, uh, reputation for eccentricity and fairly terrible marketing probably helped. Network effects kicked in from that point on: we already have Unix software, we don't want to massively rewrite it... the only option is another Unix.

lklfuse

Posted Aug 13, 2018 3:52 UTC (Mon) by fest3er (guest, #60379) [Link]

... and well we all know that "the good enough is the enemy of the best".

Brings to mind Brian Wilson's quip: "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever."

lklfuse

Posted May 31, 2018 11:52 UTC (Thu) by bendystraw (guest, #124653) [Link]

We'd be so lucky.