…past and present was the title of the lecture by Christoph Hellwig last tuesday in the Faculty of Computer Science. Hellwig is kernel developer. After a fast review of history of the filsesystem namespace in diferent operating systems, he reviewd the history of Unix. Then he centered in Linux.
He talked about relationship between Linux and anothe Unix families. I didn’t knew Plan9 OS, it seems very interesting. And he talked about future. An interesting opinion about union mount, saying to implement it in form of filesystem (unionfs and so) is a bad idea, it’s better vfs-based unionmount implementations (or, at least, it’s I understood). It’s important because there’s now a migration to unionfs in Necromantux, we must see to future.
I have Plan9 installed since last December… it’s quite strange to work with, but has some interesting features I would like to see in other OSes…
I’m testing it as live-cd im my thinkpad when I’m going by train. It’s really strange, but I’m encouraged to install it