Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 is a distributed system - built from terminals, cpu servers, and file servers. An overview of its capabilities is available.

The 4th Edition of Plan 9 was released under an open source license on April 27, 2002.
This release is available for download from the Bell Laboratories Plan 9 distribution home page

useful references

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for comp.os.plan9
• Plan 9 Volume 1 - The Manuals
• Plan 9 Volume 2 - The Documents
• To find out whether Plan 9 supports your hardware, read The Various Ports and Supported PC Hardware.
• Plan 9 Wiki
• The Plan 9 4th Edition Release Notes.
• The Plan 9 3rd Edition Announcement and Release Notes.
• Some unix tools for working with Plan 9

web sites

• Bell Laboratories Plan 9 distribution home page
• Russ Cox Plan 9 Page
• Charles Forsyth's Plan 9 Pages
• Vita Nuova Limited
• Plan 9 at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• ftp://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/ Kenji Arisawa's ftp site.
• Nemo's Plan 9 site at URJC, Spain
• Tad's Plan 9 Page
• Boyd's Page
• MPEG on Plan 9
• Nigel's site
• Basser's Plan 9 Research Group - is their group still active?
• Slashdot | Open Source Release Of Bell Labs' Plan 9

links

• Slashdot | Interview with Vita Nuova CEO Michael Jeffrey
• Linux Today - Richard Stallman -- The Problems of the Plan Nine License
• Linux Today - Geeks404.com: Plan 9 from Bell
• LinuxMall.com - Plan 9 From Bell Labs' Space (page 1 of 2)
• The Problem with Plan 9
• 9e
• WIRED 2.09: "Penn" by Joshua Quittner

old Plan 9 documents (out of date, but still relevant)

• Plan 9 3rd Edition FAQ
• Plan 9 2nd Edition FAQ
• Plan 9 Tips and Information (2nd Edition)
• Plan 9: The Early Papers and Plan 9 Programmer's Manual (1st Edition)
• An Overview of Plan 9 by Gary Capell

This page by Steve Kotsopoulos, stevek at fywss dot com
This page created: Sep 14, 1994
Last update: Sept 10, 2007