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What is Plan 9?

What is Plan 9?

AlexeyBrin

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  • ori_b
    Plan 9 is still alive and kicking -- The next Plan 9 conference will be in Victoria, BC in Canada later this year.https://iwp9.org/9front averages several commits a day:https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/HEAD/log.html
  • rcarmo
    People wanting a Retina-capable drawterm to access Plan9/9front from their Macs are welcome to have a look at https://github.com/rcarmo/drawterm
  • flippyhead
    > A printed version of the proceedings will be provided to the attendeesHow adorable!
  • lizknope
    Why did BSD make Unix sockets something outside of the file system?I can do this in bash but I always thought it would be more elegant to do a similar thing in C. I thought Plan 9 handled it more like this?cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/22SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_10.0
  • mentalgear
    Modern Plan9 web version https://github.com/tractordev/apptron
  • pjmlp
    The transition step between UNIX and Inferno, and between C and Limbo as main userspace language, by its authors.Which tends to be forgotten when praising Plan 9.
  • rramadass
    IMO, the biggest curse of the Internet age is how Distributed OS's did not become mainstream. Maybe we should repackage these as Unikernels and run our apps using their distribution services directly on a hypervisor.
  • franciscator
    I would love to see more Rust on Plan9 implementations, IMHO, could be a good modern combination.
  • irusensei
    >9front.org frequently questioned answersKnowing that project am I going to be rickrolled?
  • Eikon
    ZeroFS [0] is very thankful for what it brought to Linux with the v9fs [1] subsystem which is very nice to work with (network native) compared to fuse :)[0] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS[1] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/9p.html
  • ruslan
    Is there Plan9 port for RISC-V (RV32I) ?
  • jes5199
    I’m not sure it still makes sense to do OS research so close to the metal. Most computing is done up on the application level, and our abstractions there suck, and I haven’t seen any evidence that “everything is a file” helps much in a world of web APIs and SQL databases