On Sunday 18 February 2024 at 12:45:26, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Sunday 18 February 2024 at 12:36:54, Didier Kryn wrote:
> >     Yes, the ideal has a name. But I've never seen a computer runing

> >
> > Plan9. I would sincerely like to have this chance, even a VM. Is
> > somebody working on it, even as a project?
>
> Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs suggests the
> project status is "current", although the last ("final"?) release was in
> January 2015.
>
> https://p9f.org/ has more information.

https://danieljames.life/pages/plan9-on-qemu/ seems interesting (and up to
date).

> My major concern about such a system would be "it's all very interesting
> and I like the idea, but how do I get applications to run under it?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Plan_9_applications

Unfortunately https://9p.io/ seems to be unreachable by either IPv4 or IPv6.


Antony.

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