wraggster
December 1st, 2012, 23:23
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Yet another operating system has been ported to the Raspberry Pi. No, it’s not Haiku, sadly, but it is something just as weird and interesting. This time it’s Plan 9 from Bell Labs (http://bendyworks.com/geekville/lab_projects/2012/11/getting-plan-9-running-on-the-raspberry-pi), an 80′s era OS from the same company that brought you C and Unix.
As a research operating system, Plan 9 has a bunch of really weird, but useful features. For one, everything about a computer running Plan 9 is distributed; the memory can be running on one machine, the processor on another, and the display can run on yet another machine. This modularity gives Plan 9 the honorable title of, ‘more Unix than Unix’.
Another great feature, although somewhat of a historical note, is that Plan 9′s graphics capabilities are written into the kernel, unlike Linux and X where the display manager is floating around in user space.
It’s an interesting system, and if you’ve got enough Raspis to build your own supercomputer (http://hackaday.com/2012/09/12/64-rasberry-pis-turned-into-a-supercomputer/) you might want to install Plan 9 on a few of your nodes, just to see what the future computer of ages past looked like.
http://hackaday.com/2012/12/01/plan-9-on-the-raspberry-pi/
Yet another operating system has been ported to the Raspberry Pi. No, it’s not Haiku, sadly, but it is something just as weird and interesting. This time it’s Plan 9 from Bell Labs (http://bendyworks.com/geekville/lab_projects/2012/11/getting-plan-9-running-on-the-raspberry-pi), an 80′s era OS from the same company that brought you C and Unix.
As a research operating system, Plan 9 has a bunch of really weird, but useful features. For one, everything about a computer running Plan 9 is distributed; the memory can be running on one machine, the processor on another, and the display can run on yet another machine. This modularity gives Plan 9 the honorable title of, ‘more Unix than Unix’.
Another great feature, although somewhat of a historical note, is that Plan 9′s graphics capabilities are written into the kernel, unlike Linux and X where the display manager is floating around in user space.
It’s an interesting system, and if you’ve got enough Raspis to build your own supercomputer (http://hackaday.com/2012/09/12/64-rasberry-pis-turned-into-a-supercomputer/) you might want to install Plan 9 on a few of your nodes, just to see what the future computer of ages past looked like.
http://hackaday.com/2012/12/01/plan-9-on-the-raspberry-pi/