From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:48:04 +0000 From: Balwinder S Dheeman Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <69436BC3-CFCB-4AC9-BE18-47D6B65044EC@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac87fd7a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 08/18/2012 09:27 AM, Matthew Veety wrote: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D4397390 > > 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=C2= =AE=20 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=20 Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of=20 accessing and manipulating resources and applications transparently in a=20 distributed environment. 9P works both as a distributed file system and=20 as a network transparent and language agnostic 'API'. Though Plan 9 does not have office productivity suites, relational=20 databases, and, or even a decent web browser like Chromium, or Firefox,=20 modren C++ compiler, good GUI tool-kit or widgets and essential drivers=20 for AHCI, Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMAX and USB devices and a fully fuctional=20 IPv6 networking as yet, but it certainly is an example of a clean,=20 efficient, compact and monolithic kernel and distributed operating=20 system environment which provides a native light weight window system=20 rio, shell rc, text editor sam and versatile tools like acme, a user=20 interface, plumber, a mechanism for interprocess communication and acid,=20 a scriptable debugger for programmers, all in very small footprint. --=20 Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)