Projects

Plan 9 from User Space

Port of collection of Plan 9 utilities and protocol implementation to generic POSIX/X11R6 environment. Includes acme editor, factotum authentication agent, venti fs server and clients, rc shell, rio window manager and much more. All programs support UTF-8. Maintained by Russ Cox.

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research system developed at Bell Labs starting in the late 1980s. Its original designers and authors were Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Phil Winterbottom. They were joined by many others as development continued throughout the 1990s to the present. Plan 9 ... [More] demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to Unix users but at the same time quite foreign. In Plan 9, each process has its own mutable name space. A process may rearrange, add to, and remove from its own name space without affecting the name spaces of unrelated processes. Included in the name space mutations is the ability to mount a connection to a file server speaking 9P, a simple file protocol. [Less]

Inferno Distributed Operating System

Inferno® is a distributed operating system, originally developed at Bell Labs, but now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova® as Free Software. Applications written in Inferno's concurrent programming language, Limbo, are compiled to its portable virtual machine code (Dis), to run anywhere on ... [More] a network in the portable environment that Inferno provides. Unusually, that environment looks and acts like a complete operating system. The use of a high-level language and virtual machine is sensible but mundane. The interesting thing is the system's representation of services and resources. They are represented in a file-like name hiearchy. Programs access them using only the file operations open, read/write, and close. The 'files' may of course represent stored data, but may also be devices, network and protocol interfaces, dynamic data sources, and services. The approach unifies and provides basic naming, structuring, and access control mechanisms for all system resources. A single file-service protocol (called Styx or 9P2000) makes all those resources available for import or export throughout the network in a uniform way, independent of location. An application simply attaches the resources it needs to its own per-process name hierarchy ('name space'). The system can be used to build portable client and server applications. It makes it straightforward to build lean applications that share all manner of resources over a network, without the cruft of much of the 'Grid' software one sees. Inferno can run 'native' on various ARM, PowerPC, SPARC and x86 platforms but also 'hosted', under an existing operating system (including FreeBSD, Irix, Linux, MacOS X, Plan 9, and Solaris), again on various processor types. [Less]

acme-sac

Acme is a programmer's text editor, shell, and user interface. It runs on a virtualized operating system, Inferno, that runs hosted on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and MacOSX.

inferno-ds

Overview Inferno DS is a port of the Inferno Operating system to the Nintendo DS. Inferno DS aims to use the distributed nature of Inferno with the variety of input methods, for the hardware capabilities of the DS like wifi, touchscreen, graphics & audio (see TechnicalBackground) to create ... [More] new and interesting ways of interacting with computational resources. The GsocProjectIdeas wiki page includes some application examples like gaming, VoIP, jukebox and accessing remote resources using the styx(5) protocol. News Intrepid DS developers wanted!, just drop a line for recruitment. As progress is made we release .nds files which you can try and run on the bare DS, get them on the downloads section. [Less]

ChanL

ChanL is a portable library for easy thread-based synchronous concurrency. ChanL uses channels as primitives for thread communication, and includes a thread pool implementation. It is designed with efficiency, portability, and ease-of-use in mind.

Web9

The Web9 project is about making the 9P protocol accessible to web developers. The project involves developing PHP and Javascript implementations of the protocol and some applications that utilize the implementations. The project currently consists of the following components: PHP9P, JS9P, XHR ... [More] , Angled and Net_9P. This project was funded by Google, under their Summer of Code program for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. [Less]

authsrv9

Two implementations of the Plan 9 authentication service (auth/authsrv). One version is for unix, written in c and not depending on external libraries. The other version is for inferno, written in limbo.

scrappydog

werc based online scrapbook

Plan9 Doom Port

Doom port to Plan9.