Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Nov 2005 11:50 UTC
General Unix UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but eventually the old nag needs to be put out to pasture. David Chisnall argues that it's time to retire UNIX in favor of modern systems with a lot more horsepower. "UNIX has a lot of strengths, but like any other design it's starting to show its age. Some of the points listed in this article apply less to some UNIX-like systems, some apply more."
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RE[2]: what alternatives?
by ma_d on Sun 6th Nov 2005 14:45 UTC in reply to "RE: what alternatives?"
ma_d
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What all is ported to plan9 though.... I'm not about to give up a nice DE so I can have media streams or meta-data filesystems...
Is anyone majorly working on Plan9 still? Last time I saw it X11 was ported and you could run something that looked vaguely like twm and a couple of apps written to show off a motif looking toolkit...

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