From: Anssi Porttikivi <porttikivi@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:17:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimdFc9yUy7Uz8wONG7NQ14BCT_38_6SEQNHCbA5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Why Plan 9?
Because on one of these days some big company (hint: where are the ex Bell
Labsers working with a very much Plan 9 / inferno / Limbo insipired new
programming language) adopts the Plan 9 / Inferno in a a more or less varied
incarnation. I could imagine Android having a new kernel not tied to Java
only, and supporting a rich ecosystem of distributed 9P objects...
It is going to be big. It does not have to be Google. Someone will do it. I
hope. Wish. Dream.
In the end I can't make up my mind, about what is the single greatest idea
in the Plan 9 culture. But if pressed I suggest it is 9P and the idea, that
we really do not need protocols above the network layer, but HTTP, SMTP,
DNS, SOAP, IIOP, IMAP, IRC, SSH, SSL, TP, SNMP and hundred others can all be
replaced by "remote file access". And at the same time with file system
union directories you can also "inherit" and "augment" any of the
"services". This essentially gioves you distributed objects (with natural
persistence option). And this all can be done securely with authenticator
handles and the Factotum agent. It is safe enough to be run over the public
internet.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 9:05 Mark Carter
2010-10-11 10:23 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2010-10-11 11:07 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:17 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:53 ` Nick LaForge
2010-10-11 13:39 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-11 14:45 ` ron minnich
2010-10-11 15:01 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-10-12 8:33 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-12 8:51 ` Max E
2010-10-12 14:47 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 11:25 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 12:24 ` Jacob Todd
2010-10-12 16:04 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-11 18:43 ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-10-12 8:17 ` Anssi Porttikivi [this message]
2010-10-12 14:09 ` Mark Carter
2010-10-12 14:53 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 14:59 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 9:06 ` Max E
2010-10-12 9:29 ` yy
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