Cool!

I want to make a Plan 9 distro aimed at brazilians: I'm at the beginning of this journey. My plan is to translate all the documentation (articles and man pages), try to make the system more user friendly (not for hackers but for common people) and also work in ordinary software like a modern browser, a word processor, spreadsheet software, a kind of powerpoint etc.

I am studying Plan 9 and I am totally in love with it: read files, write to files and again: read files, write to files. And what else do you need to do? Little or nothing: things are really simple. The NSA invented SELinux (mandatory access control) because it saw that, from a security point of view, the idea of discretionary access control did not provide much. Okay, it's an idea and it works. But Plan 9, before, had introduced the idea of namespace which is, by the way, a much simpler and smarter idea: each process can have its own restricted view of the universe of files. I really don't understand why Plan 9 has not been adopted. Legacy base?

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