Why did this never catch on widely?

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

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

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
BSD was just good enough.

Like hwat exactly?

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

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.

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

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.

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

Because UNIX was already perfect in every way.

Because it was an experiment.

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

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

what do you mean with desktop?

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

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

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

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

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.

Tell me something better.

>Tell me something better.
Literally everything else.

>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.

Why?