Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
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Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#2I wish it had stuck.
In a related vein, I idly wonder if there's a project around intended to bring useful security to a practical Unix derivative. Nobody uses a big timesharing box any longer (for all reasonable definitions of nobody); and the protections mooted to keep "users" away from "wheel" are basically pointless and counterproductive in a world where attacks come from outside. Apple's code-signing is one reaction to this new reality; what's the current status of capability based systems?
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#3The linked text is from the 90s. Not exactly news. But Plan 9 was a big improvement over Unix. Unfortunately, good things are often ignored.
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#4One of my friends from University developed quite a bit for Plan 9. It's nostalgic to see this again.
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#5I wish it had stuck. In a related vein, I idly wonder if there's a project around intended to bring useful security to a practical Unix derivative. Nobody uses a big timesharing box any longer (for all reasonable definitions of nobody); and the protections mooted to keep "users" away from "wheel" are basically pointless and counterproductive in a world where attacks come from outside. Apple's code-signing is one reac…
ah. You don't seem understand plan 9 OR capabilities. Cool.
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#6Let me know when they release a decent editor for it...
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#7Let me know when they release a decent editor for it...
Sam and acme are both very good; they're weird, certainly, and very different from editors before and since but they are quite nice to work in. At least the equal of vi.
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#8I wish it had stuck. In a related vein, I idly wonder if there's a project around intended to bring useful security to a practical Unix derivative. Nobody uses a big timesharing box any longer (for all reasonable definitions of nobody); and the protections mooted to keep "users" away from "wheel" are basically pointless and counterproductive in a world where attacks come from outside. Apple's code-signing is one reac…
You can do quite a bit in Linux with CGroups and SELinux. Projects making good use of those are Fedora, Systemd and Chromium browser.
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#9Let me know when they release a decent editor for it...
As gchpaco points out, both sam and acme are pretty usable. Acme makes a good enough programming editor that I use it for all my coding at work, while I keep a tarball of the original sam port on a server for those times when I have to use a system with a crappy version of vi and no admin privileges to install something better.
Oh, and you can run Vim on Plan 9 now. But it's kind of like visiting a foreign country and eating only McDonalds.
Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
#10I wish it had stuck. In a related vein, I idly wonder if there's a project around intended to bring useful security to a practical Unix derivative. Nobody uses a big timesharing box any longer (for all reasonable definitions of nobody); and the protections mooted to keep "users" away from "wheel" are basically pointless and counterproductive in a world where attacks come from outside. Apple's code-signing is one reac…