[mdlug] Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[Dan Pritts]

Plan 9 is an interesting research project, and if you are interested
in learning about what's going on in one branch of OS research it's
a good use of your time.

as far as being the successor to UNIX, I'm sure that's what it's
meant to be - but Plan 9 is unlikely to ever leave the lab.
Look at the dates on those initial papers...

That said, research projects can and do affect the direction of more
"production" systems like linux.

If you are interested in learning about something that will be more
immediately useful out in the real world, pick something else.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:19:55PM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
> 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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