Explore the Uncharted Frontier
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Build the Future with Plan 9
Come learn Plan 9 with us and help us build the future of operating systems.
For the last thirty years, the computer landscape has been dominated by UNIX-like clones. But all that is about to change for the free software community thanks to Plan 9.
Help Change Computing Forever
Plan 9 was created by the original UNIX team from Bell Labs, the same all-star team that invented Unix and the C language. Its contributors included Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, and Bjarne Stroustrup.
Plan 9 Innovations
Plan 9 follows the UNIX philosophy more than UNIX itself:
It takes the simple idea that every interface should be a file and extends that to everything: the keyboard, mouse, sound card, windowing system, and network resources.
It creates a unique name space for each process so that each process sees a unique file system.
Plan 9 is a distributed services operating system designed with the global internet in mind. Its elegant design will make it possible to easily set up clusters and grids of servers in a way never before possible with Unix-like clones.
Watch a Live Demo
We can give you a tour of Plan 9. Join us at IRCNow to learn more about the design:
Network services using protocols like ssh, ftp, and email simply appear as files on your filesystem. This removes the need for special client interfaces.
A new windowing system that is completely integrated with the system, with its own file interface, that is independent and easier to code for than X11 and Wayland.
Chroots have been replaced with unique per-process namespacing
Berkeley sockets and ioctls have been replaced with /net file system
Free 9rc Account
IRCNow is offering a free 9rc account. We want to train explorers so we can write our own free and open operating system.
Join us to make a lasting impact on technology, to work on a project that will influence free software operating systems for the next twenty years. Let's work on Plan 9 development!
Plan 9 Innovations Adopted by Linux
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UTF-8 was first invented in Plan 9!
procfs was first invented in Plan 9!
Union filesystems were first invented in Plan 9!
?What You'll Learn
The rio windowing system (mouse chording)
How to set up your own nameserver and how to purchase a custom domain
How to compile software on Plan 9
How to Apply
If you're new to Plan 9, create a ?free plan 9 account and finish the 9-101 tutorial.
Join us over on IRC on one of our servers on #plan9