EvilZone

You sir have just summed up the new generation of the Linux community...
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As time went on the system really grew on me due to its built in simplicity and versatility. I feel that for most areas I tend to agree with the approaches taken after a small period of adjustment. There are some exceptions but those seem easily fixed due to the simplicity and versatility of he system. For example, due to the nature of everything being a file (including network access and process tables) and the presence union mounts sandbox environments are exceedingly easy to set up. One can do so with a shell script instead of a full hypervisor or even docker/cgroups. Sandboxes seem to extend all of the way to the UI level where one can restrict a process to operate only within a window that you draw, limiting unwanted pop ups for example.

Similarly, a mixed architecture cluster seems very easy to set up because of the unique cross compilers, 9p shared file systems and factotum. You can go all of the way from highly centralized cluster (thin client) to fully distributed (thick client). Single sign on is built in to the system.

Now, after only 6 months, I feel pretty comfortable with working on virtually any part of the system, including the kernel and rio. Other environments, including Linux, seem so bloated in terms of the UI's and the code. I can recompile the whole plan 9 system in just a couple of minutes. There is a lot of information available in the manual pages all of the way from user level to programmer level.

Through my journey into this area I discovered that plan 9 and Go are grounded in principles of simplicity, clarity and brevity. It's amazing what can be accomplished once you work on a system that has all three. Meanwhile, it seems like the rest of the software world is focused on the opposites and a whole lot of expensive band aid solutions.

You will get bored with this little venture pretty quick... 9front isn't a viable operating system in this daynage from what I've seen...