Bell-Labs Releases New Version Of Plan 9

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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two plan 9s...

[56ker]

And before anybody gets confused - Plan 9 from Outer Space was a film.

Plan 9 From Outer Space?

[JFMulder]

Anyone but me thought for a second that there was a new DVD version of this bad movie making classic? :-)

Plan 9 from Outer Space (or Bell Labs?)

[danox]

When I saw the first part of the article "Plan 9 from Bell Labs", the first thing I thought was "Has bell labs done some kind of remake?". I was surprised to find out that this plan 9 was in fact an OS, and not the plan of alien invaders, depicted in the Ed Wood classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Commonly known as the worst movie ever made, Ed only ever did one take of anything. Special effects are so bad, that they are really good (talking way beyond Dr Who here). Did anyone else confuse the two? I wonder if bell labs actually named their OS after this movie? Does anyone know where the name came from?