Driving Plan 9

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 23, 2006 @01:18AM from the because-you-can dept.

Glenda_lives_on writes "OSnews has an alternative OS review on Plan 9. Plan 9 is a research OS produced by Bell Labs. It was open sourced a few years back, and has enjoyed a revival of sorts. Los Alamos National Labs is continuing to favor Plan 9 for their new generation of super computing because its the fastest thing out there. I have downloaded and ran Plan 9 before. In fact the Plan 9 live cd sits here on my desk. Its not an operating system for noobs however, and lacks some graphical refinement. Plan 9 is a very cool and a interesting test drive however. Its definitely worth the price of admission (free) for exploring, and education."

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Has to be asked... by writermike · 2006-07-23 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Were Plans 1-8 "not entirely successful?"

"You see! You see! Your stupid minds! STUPID! STUPID!"

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1. Re:Has to be asked... by Mike+Savior · 2006-07-23 01:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  If they had used letters, I wonder how many times the developers would have purposely bombed the project just so they could get away with calling it "Preparation H"...
  
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2. Re:Has to be asked... by pedalman · 2006-07-23 04:33 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Were Plans 1-8 "not entirely successful?
  It could be worse. I still wonder about the poor bastards who were in the clinical trials for Preparations A-G.
  
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Surely... by isecore · 2006-07-23 01:20 · Score: 2, Funny

... Ed Wood must be proud :)

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OS good, but all the desktop wallpapers... by jpellino · 2006-07-23 01:27 · Score: 3, Funny

... are cheesy 10 ft tall silver curtains.

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The notion of good research by DrSkwid · 2006-07-23 01:30 · Score: 4, Funny

man page != implementation

http://cm.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/emacs

NAME
emacs - editor macros

SYNOPSIS
emacs [ options ]

DESCRIPTION
This page intentionally left blank.

SOURCE
MIT

SEE ALSO
sam(1), vi(1)

BUGS
Yes.
Copyright © 2006 Lucent Technologies. All rights reserved.

and vi(1) isn't what you might think either

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Re:Wow! I have never heard about this before! by despisethesun · 2006-07-23 02:57 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah! Fucking assholes! The only OS they should mention more than once is Linux!

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For those of you who haven't seen plan 9 yet... by ChePibe · 2006-07-23 03:16 · Score: 2, Funny

Plan 9 is now available for free from Google Video.

I must warn you, however, that everything you will see is based on sworn testimony...
Wow, he managed to compile a "Hello, world" by Lisandro · 2006-07-23 03:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Great review guys!
Re:The review is not so great by JoshRoss · 2006-07-23 05:17 · Score: 2, Funny

640x480 should be good enough for anyone.
Re:Plan 9, the OS for Smug Elitist Assholes? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · 2006-07-23 05:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Use Plan 9 - we're so arcane we'll always be smug and superior!
He he! It's fun seeing Linux users getting a taste of their own medicine.

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Re:Plan 9 is cool by hey! · 2006-07-23 06:37 · Score: 2, Funny

No, but the CDs are roasted way too dark. Of course some say that Americans are just too parochial to appreciate properly carmelized bits, but of course if it's so much better that way, why does their port of mkisofs have the --with-mocha and --with-vanilla-syrup options?

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