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Imagine if everything they told you about Unix was true. Plan 9 is the operating system Bell Labs made after Unix, to fix many of the problems the designers saw.

That said, it's based around what the designers of Plan 9 thought were problems with Unix. It's a very opinionated operating system. But it has so many ideas that were ahead of their time, and in many ways are still lightyears beyond what we have now.

It's a really cool piece of computing history, and if you haven't tried it, I suggest you look into it, but keep in mind that even though it looks and sometimes feels like Unix, it very much is not. It's not terribly useful as a daily driver OS due to a lack of software, but it's very, very cool.

parent thesuitonym 5 years ago

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