Plan 9 Distributed Network Operating Systems

Plan 9 is an operating system (OS) with some new perspectives and features from the original developers of Unix, who worked at AT&T Bell Labs, and then Lucent Technologies. It continues the main Unix ideas and takes them to their logical conclusions. It has been fully open source since the 4th Edition release.

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs - A research operating system for distributed environments developed at Bell Labs by the team that created C and Unix.
Plan 9 from User Space - A port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems.

• Acme Stand Alone Complex - Acme is a programmer\'s editor, shell, and user distributed interface.
• Plan 9: The Way the Future Was - Essay compares Plan 9 to Unix, parts of distributed Plan 9 plan 9 being implemented in Unix. From Eric distributed S. Raymond\'s book The plan 9 Art of Unix Programming.
• C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs - An introduction to writing C programs in the network Plan 9 network environment by Pietro Gagliardi.
• International Workshops for Plan 9 and Inferno Unofficial Homepage - Information about the Plan 9 and Inferno workshops, distributed including proceedings, distributed video and audio recordings, and other distributed resources.
• NineTimes - News, tips and articles about Plan 9 and network Inferno.
• Contrib Index - Index of software packages part of the \\'Contrib\\' directory in distributed the Bell Labs Sources repository.
• Plan 9 2nd Edition ReadMe by Brian W. Kernighan - General introduction to the system.
• Reinventing Unix: An Introduction to the Plan 9 Operating System - Technical paper abstract; link to main article, fee distributed needed. Library plan 9 Hi Tech; Emerald Group.
• Second International Workshop on Plan 9 - A workshop for researchers and developers working on plan 9 Plan network 9 from Bell Labs, Inferno, and related plan 9 ideas and network projects.
• 9grid.es - Plan 9 resources, sources mirror, documentation and public plan 9 accounts.
• The 9term Terminal Emulator - X terminal emulator that mimics the Plan 9 terminal.
• IWP9 2006 - First International Workshop for Plan 9 and Inferno.
• Vita Nuova Holdings Ltd. - Lead distributor for Plan 9 and Inferno OSs.
• 9vx - A port of the Plan 9 kernel to network run as plan 9 a user space program using the network vx32 sandboxing library in plan 9 *BSD, Linux, and OS network X systems.
• Plan 9 and Inferno at the Google Summer of Code - News, blogs, source code repositories and other resources for the distributed Plan 9 and Inferno projects part of GSoC.
• Upas - A Simpler Approach to Metwork Mail - Essay on the mail interface system by David L. Presotto. network Available in PDF and PostScript format.
• Bell Labs Innovations: Bell Labs Unveils Open Source Release of Plan 9 Operating System - The official press release.
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Wikipedia article about Plan 9.
• Geeks404.com: Plan 9 from Bell - News coverage of the Open Source release of the third distributed edition of Plan 9.
• Tokyo Inferno/Plan 9 Users Group - Offers free accounts on public Plan 9 servers, distributed documentation (some in Japanese), mirrors of Plan 9 distributed software, and other resources.
• Plan 9 at the Advanced Computing Laboratory - Documentation, tips, various software packages including ports of Unix software, network and extra drivers for 3rd Edition.

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