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Plan 9's spiritual successor is Inferno, which is open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infern
by shaunshaunshaun 11y ago
Plan 9's spiritual successor is Inferno, which is open source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29
Inferno seems like the obvious choice for the IoT.
- henesy 11y agoNot sure I'd call it a successor as much as a cousin. Inferno is certainly based upon Plan9, but it is not Plan9. If you want a more up to date or maintained Plan9 check out 9front[1] or 9atom[2]. [1]: http://9front.org/ http://9front.org/ [2]: http://www.9atom.org/ http://www.9atom.org/
- justin66 11y agoI've only ever toyed with it but Inferno has some interesting properties. They've got a system that will run the dis virtual machine on a 32-bit cpu without an mmu. I remember a couple of Lucent telecom products from the mid nineties that ran on it but I'm not sure what else was out there.
- justin66 11y agoDoes anyone use Inferno in a commercial product right now?
- octetta 11y agoNot me, but I tried very hard to put it in a device that's deployed in > 2 million field locations. I did manage to get Russ Cox' libtask in the product though.
- henesy 11y agoI know Vita Nuova uses it in their consulting. I've heard of other fringe cases for various projects or systems. http://www.vitanuova.com/ http://www.vitanuova.com/
- justin66 11y agoYeah, Vita Nuova's stuff is interesting - running each node on a supercomputer as an Inferno instance sounded cool - but I guess the fringe cases are what I'm curious about.