>>124 (not who you were replying to) people often say this but, not to say plan9 is bad or anything, there are plenty of formulations of linux which can fit quite nicely into the unix philosophy way of doing things. perhaps it's lacking in the networking department sure, I'll grant that, but that doesn't mean it should be dismissed entirely. KISS linux is the obvious example of a unix philosophy adherent distro, although it's not very commonly used, the philosophy of extremely minimal system with lots of small shell scripts tying everything together is very unixy in a good way. You can see the benefits of this system because it was designed to be maintainable by a single user, and when the lead maintainer left to become an olive farmer in greece or whatever without telling anyone, everything was maintained just fine. You can set up pretty much any linux (or BSD for that matter) to run with this kind of setup, very minimal with lots of small shell scripts tying things together, and it works very well in my experience.
(not who you were replying to)
people often say this but, not to say plan9 is bad or anything, there are plenty of formulations of linux which can fit quite nicely into the unix philosophy way of doing things. perhaps it's lacking in the networking department sure, I'll grant that, but that doesn't mean it should be dismissed entirely. KISS linux is the obvious example of a unix philosophy adherent distro, although it's not very commonly used, the philosophy of extremely minimal system with lots of small shell scripts tying everything together is very unixy in a good way. You can see the benefits of this system because it was designed to be maintainable by a single user, and when the lead maintainer left to become an olive farmer in greece or whatever without telling anyone, everything was maintained just fine. You can set up pretty much any linux (or BSD for that matter) to run with this kind of setup, very minimal with lots of small shell scripts tying things together, and it works very well in my experience.