Inferno Distributed Operating System

John Floren announced on 9fans that himself and some of the folks at Sandia National Labs have inferno running on a few android devices. We would like to announce the availability of Inferno for Android phones. Because our slogan is “If it ain’t ... [More] broke, break it”, we decided to replace the Java stack on Android phones with Inferno. We’ve dubbed it the Hellaphone—it was originally Hellphone, to keep with the Inferno theme, but then we realized we’re in Northern California and the change was obvious. The Hellaphone runs Inferno directly on top of the basic Linux layer provided by Android. We do not even allow the Java system to start. Instead, emu draws directly to the Linux framebuffer (thanks, Andrey, for the initial code!) and treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse. Because the Java environment doesn’t start, it only takes about 10 seconds to go from power off to a fully-booted Inferno environment. As of today, we have Inferno running on the Nexus S and the Nook Color. It should also run on the Android emulator, but we haven’t tested that in a long time. The cell radio is supported, at least on the Nexus S (the only actual phone we’ve had), so you can make phone calls, send texts, and use the data network. A video John made showing what’s working so far. Great job guys! [Less]

New 9front release “Gored Gordon” (compilers and kernel updated for go1) torrent direct download

New 9front release “Deaf Geoff” this release consists mainly of bugfixes (cwfs, kfs, factotum, mothra) tho cdfs got updated from sources and sam undo command will jump to the change now (thanks aiju!) ;) torrent direct download

This years iwp9 is going to be held at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain. The workshop is taking place October 20 — 21, 2011. The registration deadline (which is subject to change) is on October 10th. More information at iwp9.org.

The Plan 9 community always was known to support intelligent jokes. 9front is taking this a bit further. Stanley Lieber (No, it’s not him!) has created some artwork for 9front. Thanks to him!

Plan 9 has been forked to start a development out of the Bell‐Labs (or whatever they are called these days…). This true community‐approach allows further development of Plan 9, even if the shrinking resources at Bell‐Labs for Plan 9 are vanishing. ... [More] The homepage and the code can be both found at Google code. You can boot 9front from the regulary built live cd or build the binaries in your existing Plan 9 installation. Installation instructions and further information can be obtained at the 9front wiki. Everyone is invited to join the development of 9front. Discussions about 9front are held in #cat‐v on irc.freenode.net. [Less]

Subject: [9fans] IWP9 2010 – Submissions deadline extended Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:56:32 -0700 Hello 9fans, The deadline for paper and WIP submissions has been extended to Sept 6th. Please send in your submissions as soon as possible. Thanks, -Skip Post on 9fans

New article/tutorial about developing modules for Limbo in C explain how to create new module from scratch, and some important details about Inferno memory management.

Skip Tavakkolian has posted an update on IWP9 5e, the post to 9fans is included below. Subject: [9fans] IWP9 2010 – Update and reminder Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:23:43 -0700 Hello 9fans, IWP9 2010 is shaping up to be an exciting event. We are ... [More] happy to announce the following talks: • Sape Mullender et al. will present a paper on a new Operating System that Bell Labs is working on. • Charles Forsyth will give a talk on the state of Inferno, Limbo and related projects at Vita Nuova. • Geoff Collyer et al. will give a talk on ongoing Plan 9 efforts at Bell Labs, including the Blue Gene port and ports to ARM boards and plugs, Virtex 4 and 5 Power PC FPGA and others. • Ron Minnich will lead a “hack session”, putting Plan 9 on small devices — primarily the Sheeva/Guru plugs; other boards like the BeagleBoard and the Gumstix Overo are also encouraged. Please note that the deadline for submitting your drafts is August 15th. Thanks, -Skip [Less]

Skip Tavakkolian (9nut) has just announced the 5th edition of the International Workshop on Plan 9! This year’s workshop is being held in Seattle, Washington, at REI HQ in the North Room from October 11 – 13. The event is being sponsored by the U.S. ... [More] Department of Energy. Information on hotel group rates will be made available on iwp9.org. From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9ne...> Subject: Announcement: Fifth IWP9 - Oct 11-13 2010, Seattle WA Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:14:25 -0700 Hello 9fans, On behalf of the IWP9 Planning Committee, I am pleased to announce that this year's workshop will be held in Seattle, Oct 11th through 13th. The conference will include presented papers, works-in-progress and workshops. Please mark your calendars and start work on your submissions. The event will be held in the North Room at REI's flagship store -- a.k.a REI HQ -- in downtown Seattle. Other information, including information about the hotel with a group rate for IWP9 attendees will be made available on the conference website as they become available. Please visit: http://www.iwp9.org --Skip Tavakkolian 9fans thread [Less]