think tank forum

has anyone looked into this os? it's pretty rockin. essentially they were looking to make a distributed os based off of unix to an extent. the idea is that the kernel handles communication with hardware, but everything else runs off of process servers so that tasks may be distributed. another crux is that everything is represented as a file. printers, keyboards, etc... it's all a file so that you can go through the network and use whatever you want for your workstation. also, it only uses one network protocol for everything so it's extremely secure. if i confused anyone i recommend checking wikipedia for it.

rob pike who developed unix from bell labs worked on plan9 for years in addition to an os called <a href="http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html">inferno</a>. i read about this guy recently because he now works for google.

http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=423
http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=142

http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1267

There's a Qemu image of Plan9 here: http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Category :Downloads

It turns out some of my Plan9 screen captures were on my photobucket account!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/phi_/20 … _scrot.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/phi_/wmii-acme.png

Here's Qemu running Windows 98 ... because I think it's really funny: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/phi_/qe … 8-logo.png

Here's some rob pike web presence:

http://labs.google.com/people/r/index.html

http://www.herpolhode.com/rob/

http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf

heh they still making that os? i wonder which will be released stable first... plan 9 or HURD...

MINIX for sure...
and i know there's MINIX3 but seriously.