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Bell-Labs Releases New Version Of Plan 9

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the from-outer-space dept.

F2F writes "Plan 9 from Bell Labs Fourth Release was announced yesterday marking a major overhaul of the entire operating system. VMware images are now supported, together with hoards of new hardware. The operating system now sports a new security model (on top of the old one, which was already quite secure), new network-resident secure storage system and improvements in the thread library, among others. See the release notes here: release4 notes or simply go to the download page at: plan9 download." T. adds: erikdalen sent in these links to critiques of the Plan 9 license from Richard Stallman and Nathan Myers.

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  1. Re:Pretty Secure... by complete+fallout · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    there is no security through obscurity

  2. Plan 9 is old hat by countach · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    While it's cool, in a 70's kind of way that Plan 9 makes everything into a file, it's really pretty old hat. A file is a very kludgy, primitive notion compared to making everything into an object.
    Making everything a byte stream is consistent - sure, great - but byte streams are pretty pathetic. Some kind of OO file system where everything is an object, and you can hook objects together would be something much cooler. Something kinda like a lisp machine combined with a persistent store, where you can operate on any object using standard language constructs.

    So who gives a %&*#@ about Plan 9. Let it die.

  3. Re:too little, too late by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You still use OS/2? Or are you talking about windows?

  4. Can I suggest that if Stallman... by SIGFPE · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    ...doesn't like the license he doesn't download Plan 9. There! Problem solved!

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