Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2

TopSpin writes "Alcatel-Lucent has authorized The University of California, Berkeley to 'release all Plan 9 software previously governed by the Lucent Public License, Version 1.02 under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.' Plan 9 was developed primarily for research purposes as the successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002. Plan 9 has subsequently emerged as Inferno, a commercially supported derivative, and ports to various platforms, including a recent port to the Raspberry Pi. In Plan 9, all system interfaces, including those required for networking and the user interface, are represented through the file system rather than specialized interfaces. The system provides a generic protocol, 9P, to perform all communication with the system, among processes and with network resources. Applications compose resources using union file systems to form isolated namespaces."

Comments

Hot grits

[Hognoxious]

I'm running Plan9 in a VM hosted on Hurd (sorry, that's GNU/Hurd) on a computer I made on a 3D printer that I bought with bitcoins.

Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia Bennet Haselton is waiting for a long pompous article about how everyone else is wrong and beta is great written by ME!!!!

Re:Hot grits

[Jane Q. Public]

Easy to understand. He just had hip replacement surgery.

Re:Hot grits

[smittyoneeach]

Where's Stephen King
Pwning all your base
Found dead, manscaping
With soap on his face?
Burma Shave

Re:I find it interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

and You are a pdf file

Re:I find it interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Your mom is a bmp.

Re:Dead end

[Half-pint HAL]

What about an OS where everything is a potato?

I tried that once. Unfortunately when I ran it full multitasking on a multicore processor, the timeslicing just left me with a bag of chips....