It may be that I didn’t “get” Plan 9, but it feels very tied to its GUI the same way Windows does. Yet, the way it treats the network transparently is fascinating and I wish we had more diversity in the OS space and Plan 9 would be brilliant in a cloud setting where you could just extend your workstation’s capabilities to whatever cloud service you can pay for.<p>There has to be more in the OS space than Unixes and MVS-derived OSs
There doesn't seem to be much there? Seems to be just a basic kernel that they <i>eventually</i> want to turn into Plan 9 in Rust.<p>Not to diminish their accomplishment, but this is not Plan 9 just yet.
It's fun to redo Plan 9, is very gimmicky between the name and the 9front fork and its memelords, but even the creators of Plan 9 have moved on to Inferno OS from what they've learned.