Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by mcartyem » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 12:03 AM UTC

Plan 9 from Bell Labs
en.wikipedia.org

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by cjh_ » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 1:13 AM UTC

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.

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by thirsteh » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 1:14 AM UTC

cjh_ wrote: post #2

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.

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

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by duaneb » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 1:16 AM UTC

thirsteh wrote: post #3

cjh_ wrote: post #2

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.

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

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

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by chimeracoder » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 1:19 AM UTC

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.

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by h00k » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 1:25 AM UTC

So...this is news?

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by tzs » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 2:00 AM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #5

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 Pla…

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.

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by mcartyem » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 2:12 AM UTC

cjh_ wrote: post #2

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.

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?

Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Post by thirsteh » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 2:20 AM UTC

duaneb wrote: post #4

thirsteh wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

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.)