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Plan 9 OS

Discussions center on the Plan 9 operating system from Bell Labs, including explanations of its concepts, user experiences, comparisons to Unix/Linux, and its features like 9P protocol and filesystem model.

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tempfile • Oct 18, 2024 • View on HN

Is Plan9 in this context related at all to Bell Labs's Plan9? Seems too similar to be coincidence.

btw0 • Jul 4, 2009 • View on HN

Do you use Plan 9 as your main OS?

Dauntless • Feb 13, 2014 • View on HN

Can someone explain in plain talk what Plan 9 is and does? Thanks...

nix23 • Aug 8, 2021 • View on HN

Having Unix and try to implement Plan9 on top of it?

marktangotango • Nov 10, 2014 • View on HN

How does this compare to the plan 9 from user space project?

kayman • Dec 8, 2014 • View on HN

Has anyone used Plan-9 have feedback on running it?

1010100101 • Dec 1, 2011 • View on HN

I'm curious, have you used Plan9? If yes, how long did you use it?

ddevault • Nov 13, 2022 • View on HN

Plan 9 is mostly useful for research interest, not as production infrastructure.

zeveb • Oct 17, 2016 • View on HN

Plan 9 is knocking on the door and would like to have a word …

sevkih • Mar 13, 2016 • View on HN

why plan9 hasn't come up yet?