Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

[Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@anu.homelinux.net>]

On 08/18/2012 09:27 AM, Matthew Veety wrote:
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390
>
> For what it's worth, our beloved operating system is on Hacker News.

The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to Unix® 
users but at the same time quite foreign, because it indeed is not a Unix.

9P2000 (aka 9P) is a network protocol developed at Bell Labs for the 
Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of 
accessing and manipulating resources and applications transparently in a 
distributed environment. 9P works both as a distributed file system and 
as a network transparent and language agnostic 'API'.

Though Plan 9 does not have office productivity suites, relational 
databases, and, or even a decent web browser like Chromium, or Firefox, 
modren C++ compiler, good GUI tool-kit or widgets and essential drivers 
for AHCI, Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMAX and USB devices and a fully fuctional 
IPv6 networking as yet, but it certainly is an example of a clean, 
efficient, compact and monolithic kernel and distributed operating 
system environment which provides a native light weight window system 
rio, shell rc, text editor sam and versatile tools like acme, a user 
interface, plumber, a mechanism for interprocess communication and acid, 
a scriptable debugger for programmers, all in very small footprint.

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Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
(http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)