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Plan9 is now Officially Open Source
DrSkwid writes "The OSI have approved the revised license for the plan 9 operating system according to attendees returning from this year's Usenix Bof."
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How long until SCO claim that SCO IP was stolen and put into plan9?
There is no god
So, is this operating system from outer space as well?
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
this year's Usenix Bof
Usenix Bof? Sounds like what happens when a bunch of greasy, miserable nerds decide to play doctor in the server room.
it's the bunny rabbit that lends itself to the business-saavy of this OS!
must.. have.. the bunny OS!!
What is Plan 9, anyway? All I could gather from the website before it was slashdotted into oblivion is that their logo is really fucking cute.
Yes, you're absolutely right. A screenshot is irrefutable evidence of the basic structure of an operating system.
Indeed, untill I had seen a screenshot or two, I had no idea how to write in C, now I'm rewriting Linux from a monolithic kernel to a micro kernel, thanks to the power of screenshots!
dammit.. another operating system to try out.... and only 2 computers.
I write code.
With TRON and now Plan 9 falling into the hands of OSS the move to have the operating systems of computers taken over by old sci-fi movies is happening.
Ah... another slashbot humour cliche is born. *sniff* WE WILL HAVE SCO JOKES FOR YEARS! REJOICE IN THE NETWORK-TV-LIKE LACK OF ORIGINALITY!
Beowulf clusters of those! SCO claims infringement! Hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants!
Is the fact that, while the entire OS was mapped around Dennis Ritchie's involvement, he died halfway through the making of the OS.
Eventually, a bad double - in the form of the CEO's dentist - was brought in to replace Ritchie - the result being that the first half of the Plan9 OS is decent, but the last half is just terrible.
Oh, and it turns out that the CEO is a cross-dressing lunatic, whose obsession with C-grade OSes (like BeOS, NetBSD, NeXT, Apple OS9, OS2 Warp, etc) eventually led to him living out the rest of his life if relative obscurity and poverty. Sad, really... but, it might make a decent movie... nah.
Just like in TV, where giant letters and synthesised voices show how important a computer is. :)
"What is it good for?"
It's good for shut up the people who yell "OMG stop copying and start innovating dammit!!!" all the time.
These news are funny when Slashdot's poll is "Worst Sci-Fi Movie Ever".
ESR has some info on Plan9 OS, wich include this footnote:
Prescriptive grammar:linguistics
everything in UNIX is modelled as a "file", whereas in Plan9 everything is modelled after a "burrito"
UNIX makes extensive use of the commandline and pipe metaphor, while Plan9 has a chaw spitbucket metaphor.
UNIX programmers are very wealthy and considered to be generally cool by all, whereas Plan9 programmers generally only are popular with other Plan9 programmers. This leads to inbreeding and other nasty stuff which is why AT&T was forced to put a stop to it.
Fortunately, he won that case, ...
Yeah, but he also lost!
SteveM
When it comes to licensing, the BSD fanatics (as opposed to mere BSD fans, of which I are one) are one of the few groups in the world that can make RMS look like a moderate.