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… open-source journalist Liam Proven gave a talk titled: "One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix." Here's the precis of that presentation:
"Plan 9 was intended to be Unix, done better. It preemptively replaced a lot of what we now bodge together with virtual machines, containers, and even microkernels, and it did it more simply and cleanly. But it wasn't compatible enough to replace its ancestor. With off-the-shelf existing 21st century tech, we can fix that."
Liam also wrote a series of articles stemming from that talk, …
Via <https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/111920070275742096> and <https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/111941382320692605>:
The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead
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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation
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