[ColanR]

I keep thinking that we might take this opportunity of rebuilding an OS from the ground up to implement something like Plan 9. The usual adoption issue of drivers and apps seems irrelevant here.

Fundamentally, its distributed nature would allow far greater integration between desktop and mobile hardware. Mobile + laptop + NAS would be so deeply integrated that they would better be considered a single computer with multiple more-or-less accessible terminals - and if a mobile device was part of that integration, it would represent a sea change in the utility of smartphones. I'm personally a big fan of how a mobile device could 'automatically' use the processing power of a Plan 9 desktop whenever they're both on the home network.

(just a plan 9 newbie that is enamoured of the system design)

Edit: BTW, pretty sure this is what Google's project fuschia is based on.

[chc4]

You might be interested in https://youtube.com/watch?v=LYPBAckCEQo

[ColanR]

Yup, Inferno is one of the Plan 9 forks and that looks very close to what I'm imagining. Though it seems to be built on top of android.