Inferno Operating System
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Inferno Operating System
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#2Namespaces: a program's view of the network is a single, coherent namespace that appears as a hierarchical file system but may represent physically separated (locally or remotely) resources
Standard communication protocol: a standard protocol, called Styx, is used to access all resources, both local and remote
This looks similar to Qubes Air roadmap: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/
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#3This project had my favorite naming theme in all of computing.
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#4In reality, this was an attempt to turn Plan 9 into a commercial product.
Plan 9 despite it's crazy UI (the shell and editor have been ported to Linux so some people must have liked it) brought a lot of new ideas which eventually found their way into other projects such as Linux containers and Go (for obvious reasons).
One really good idea that died with Plan 9 was transparent distribution of CPUs across the network. You could - the same way you mount a network drive today - mount a remote CPU and run your local software on it.
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#7In reality, this was an attempt to turn Plan 9 into a commercial product. Plan 9 despite it's crazy UI (the shell and editor have been ported to Linux so some people must have liked it) brought a lot of new ideas which eventually found their way into other projects such as Linux containers and Go (for obvious reasons). One really good idea that died with Plan 9 was transparent distribution of CPUs across the network.…
This is an interesting concept because I wasn't sure what 'distributed operating system' meant.
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#8In reality, this was an attempt to turn Plan 9 into a commercial product. Plan 9 despite it's crazy UI (the shell and editor have been ported to Linux so some people must have liked it) brought a lot of new ideas which eventually found their way into other projects such as Linux containers and Go (for obvious reasons). One really good idea that died with Plan 9 was transparent distribution of CPUs across the network.…
Although I'm not sure how that "mounting" of cpus would avoid people hogging resources. I use a HPC system where users submit jobs and there's a whole complicated queuing system going on to make sure that greedy users don't monopolize the system.
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#9This project had my favorite naming theme in all of computing.
Does it have the seven shells and a lake of boiling blood instead of the kernel?
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#10In reality, this was an attempt to turn Plan 9 into a commercial product. Plan 9 despite it's crazy UI (the shell and editor have been ported to Linux so some people must have liked it) brought a lot of new ideas which eventually found their way into other projects such as Linux containers and Go (for obvious reasons). One really good idea that died with Plan 9 was transparent distribution of CPUs across the network.…
Although I'm not sure how that "mounting" of cpus would avoid people hogging resources. I use a HPC system where users submit jobs and there's a whole complicated queuing system going on to make sure that greedy users don't monopolize the system.
You could make the same argument about mounting disks.
You revoke the permissions of the people who abuse those resources, and you don’t expose them to the outside world at large completely unprotected.