Why did this never catch on widely?

it cant do anything special that gnu/linux cant right? same reason bsd isnt really catching on for desktop

>>60467818
nobody will ever use bsd for desktop other than some 25 people, dwal with it (You)

>>60467943
It can do a lot of things Linux (Or Linux-GNU) can't do. On concept level, GNU and Linux are stuck in the 80s
>>60467818
BSD was just good enough.

>>60468127
Like hwat exactly?

>>60468157
iirc it has all sorts of neat abilities like the ability to mount and use another machine's hardware over the network

>>60467818
Yet another Unix copy, doesn't matter if the only way to make it a desktop is to port over the clusterfuck that is the Linux desktop.

>>60468500
It's not a copy, it's the successor. At least it was intended to be.

>>60467818
Lack of applications. The foundation is good. I gave it a spin, the mouse handling takes a little to get used to but no big problem.

If you want to try mow you might want to go for 9front which is in continuous development. Plan9 is ended.

>>60468157
Private namespaces, for example.
Here you go
https://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf

>>60467818
Because UNIX was already perfect in every way.

Because it was an experiment.

>>60468529
Doesn't matter if you need to put the same software on it as Linux to make a desktop.

>>60471543
Nobody cared the first time, why are you posting again?

>>60471543
what do you mean with desktop?

Plan 9 ships with rio (wm), web browser by deafault.

>>60467818

Because UNIX was too good and apps of the time couldn't really use the extra cool stuff.

>>60467818

reminder that john carmack wanted to make a real windows manager for plan9 but got sidetracked with quake

>>60471946
What do you mean by ``real''?
Rio is pretty cool

>>60467818
It was a successor of a real piece of shit.
People got fed up with the old piece of shit (UNIX) and don't want a paint-coated new version for tremendous efforts.

It needs some work before anyone will consider adopting it.
A web browser with javascript would be a start.

>>60472302
Tell me something better.

>>60472516
>Tell me something better.
Literally everything else.

>>60472027
>I spent a few months running Plan9. It has an achingly elegent internal structure, but a user interface that has been asleep for the past decade. I had an older version of quake dedicated server running on it (don't ask me for it -- I lost it somewhere) and I was writing a civilized window manager for it in my spare time, but my spare time turned out to be only a couple hours a month, and it just got prioritized out of existance.

I like rio a lot too but it is too different from what most people are used to

Imagine the security nightmare it would be. Some nice ideas though.

>>60474405
Why?