[mdlug] Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[Jacob Todd]

Has anyone experimented with Plan 9 from Bell Labs? I discovered it a couple
of months ago and have been reading excessively about it's design ever since.
It's meant to be the successor to UNIX, and to quote the paper Designing
Plan 9[1]:
	"Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from
	separate machines acting as CPU servers, file servers, and
	terminals. The pieces are connected by a single file-oriented
	protocol and local name space operations. Because the system was
	built from distinct, specialized components rather than similar
	general-purpose components, Plan 9 achieves levels of efficiency,
	security, simplicity, and reliability seldom realized in other
	distributed systems."

I've recently setup and old PC with Plan 9, but haven't had much time to play
with it on real hardware; I'm using qemu currently to test things when I have
time.

So, has anyone else ever heard of this or used it? Here's[2] most of the papers
and here[3] is the official website in case anyone is interested.

[1]http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9
[2]http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ and http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/
[3]http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/index.html
-- 
Jake Todd
// If it isn't broke, tweak it!
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