Plan 9 from Bell Labs

cjh_ 13 years ago |

Although I am a fan of plan 9 in general, I don't really see how posting a link to the Wikipedia article is useful.

mcartyem 13 years ago | |

I have a question about it: can anyone tell how it deals with redundancy?

It seems to be distributed. If you are running Plan 9 on 3 machines, and one goes down, what happens to the rest of the system. Does it become unavailable?

thirsteh 13 years ago | |

A lot of people don't know anything about Plan 9.

duaneb 13 years ago | | |

Sure, but is Hacker _News_ really the place to learn?

thirsteh 13 years ago | | |

Sure. It's been stated many times that Hacker News is for anything that might be interesting to hackers, not just "news" (anything that happened relatively recently.)

h00k 13 years ago |

So...this is news?

chimeracoder 13 years ago |

For those who are interested in Plan9, you may be interested in checking out the following:

* Plan9port (Plan 9 from User Space) ports a number of the Plan9 programs to Linux: http://swtch.com/plan9port/

* wmii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmii) is a tiling window manager that allows configuration through a Plan9-like filesystem. A number of people I know (myself included) were first introduced to the power of Plan 9 through wmii's extensive configurability.

* Go (the language) has borrowed a number of elements from Plan 9. One of the two main compilers (gc) traces its origin in the plan9 toolchain.

* Acme/Wily (the text editor). I'll have to confess that I never took to this much (as a Vim user), but give it a shot.

tzs 13 years ago | |

Plan9port claims to be a port to Unix like systems, not just Linux. The site lists OS X, SunOS, and several BSDs in addition to Linux.