I was fascinated with Plan 9. It just has really cool ideas in its design.<p>It has been said before and I agree. The problem with Plan 9 adoption isn't Plan 9. Plan 9 is beautiful. The problem is that Linux is quite alright as well.<p>Also, Linux has drivers for more hardware when Plan 9 was ready to be played with. Plan 9 doesn't. It is a chicken and egg problem. I remember trying Plan 9 and it just didn't have drivers for some of my hardware. It was like Linux in back in the days.
There are Amazon AMI's for plan 9, called plan9-fossil. You don't use ssh to get in though. You need to use the plan 9 "cpu" command, using the "ec2" user and a random password printed on the instance console/system log. I have a plan 9 host running under VirtualBox that I used to access my Amazon Plan 9 host. It worked just great. Another little item is you have to allow TCP access to ports 17010 and 17013 on the instance.
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I can't access any of the above... :(
One of my favorite features of Plan 9 is the extremely powerful filesystem abstraction through the 9p file protocol.
It is incredible how clean becomes the design of the applications and the communication between the modules with a simple file interface. Currently I'm working on potential extension of this idea - an ontology-based virtual filesystem, where the files are replaced by objects and the organization is defined by relations, instead of the hierarchical structures.
Interesting. Serendipitously, I just came across some GSOC posts regarding getting Java on it:<p><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/plan9-gsoc" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/plan9-gsoc</a><p>If that turns out OK and someone manages to port a browser over, it might be a good environment to do run Clojure.
Considering plan9 is so great for distributed computing, those with Big Data experience, do you think it is only a matter of time before plan9 replaces other operating systems being used in map-reduce, clustered environments?
A bit sad that the page is down.<p>However, people interested into (vanilla) Plan 9 might also be interested in this:<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/</a>
It's a revolutionary OS hampered by licensing.<p>Open source the goddamn thing to save its ideas at this point before they are lost to nerd-history and let's see what happens.