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What's plan 9?

• msla 4y ago
  The OS the people who created Unix did after they'd decided that networked workstations with high-resolution graphics displays and mice were the way the future would look. In some ways, it's a cleaned-up Unix, and in others, it's a different design, based more around computers on a LAN sharing resources than than terminals connecting to a central system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
  • masswerk 4y ago
    Kudos for providing an answer (also a very good short answer) instead of simply downvoting a question!
• nobody9999 4y ago
  >What's plan 9? The sibling comment gave a good answer. But don't take their word (or Wikipedia's, for that matter) for it. Go ahead and install[0] it yourself. I'd recommend a VM. [0] https://plan9.io/plan9/ https://plan9.io/plan9/
  • drybjed 4y ago
    You can also watch an excellent series of videos[1] from the adventuresin9[2] YouTube channel, showcasing the Plan 9 system itself (based on 9front fork) and its capabilities. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qFfPYl0t8Cq7auyblZqxA/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qFfPYl0t8Cq7auyblZqxA/vid... [2]: https://youtube.com/adventuresin9 https://youtube.com/adventuresin9
• jacquesm 4y ago
  In a nutshell: an iterative improvement on the UNIX concept of everything is a file. In UNIX everything is a file unless it isn't (a device, for instance, which just looks like a file but does not behave as such), in plan 9 that is so cleanly implemented that you can run one window manager inside another (and if you want while using the CPU resources of yet another machine) without losing stride.
• dredmorbius 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886850