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

Re:On Debian that's allready done.

[pla]

As the systemd people say: If you don't like it go use bsd or get a mac. You do not have a choice. It has been decided. SystemD wins.

How 'bout I stick with my nice stable Slackware, and you whipper-snappers can use whatever Windows-clone-oh-but-it-runs-Linux-under-the-hood you want? That do it for ya, plucky?

Pffft, arguing about changing something that hasn't broken. "Hey, my left arm works just fine, but I really think I should cut it off and get a shiny new model!"

Re:On Debian that's allready done.

[Atzanteol]

Can we get a mod up for this guy? Seriously - init scripts are a hack. They've always been a hack. Just because they're a hack you're comfortable with doesn't mean it's the "right way" to do it.