Inferno Distributed Operating System

Scheme 9 from Empty Space (s9fes) "is an interpreter for a broad subset of R4RS Scheme". It currently functions on several operating systems, including -- albeit, "experimentally" -- Plan 9. Perhaps the GSoC group working on achieving a similar feat can take something from this, as it is a clean and working implementation. Try it for yourself!

Steve Simon released a while ago a mysqlfs for Plan 9 modeled after odbc(10.4) in Inferno. It is available using the sources/contrib packaging system as steve/mysqlfs.

Plan 42 is a new OS by Andy Elvey that treats 'everything as a file' and seems to take more than a bit of inspiration from Plan 9. What makes it (as boyd would have put it) so 'fascinating' is that it is implemented in Python and C++ and uses ... [More] "whefs" (Wandering Horse Embedded File System) as its main storage file system. Among other things it seems to include: A clone of the plumber A port of Newsham's Python 9P library to C++ A clone of fossil called 'trilobite' The currently 'pre-alpha' project is released to the public domain. And given its claims that "it's all about having fun", who can criticize it? More info at its github page: http://github.com/mooseman/plan_42/tree/master [Less]

More 4th IWP9 info and Call for Papers Erik Quanstrom has announced further details about the next International Workshop for Plan 9 and Inferno. The official dates are from October 22 to 24 and the event will be hosted by the great folks at ... [More] Coraid. Papers in the usual Plan 9 style should be sent to iwp9paper at quanstro.net by the end of August. Work In Progress reports are also encouraged in a similar format to the papers but limited to less than three pages (and the deadline for this is instead the fifth of October). The registration deadline for attending the workshop is 28th of September, attendance is free, as usual, just remember to bring your Glenda t-shirt ;) For the full details see the official website and the 2009 page at iwp9.cat-v.org. [Less]

Plan 9 Workshops Around the World International Workshop for Plan 9 (and Inferno) aka IWP9 news: First two audio recordings from IWP9 2008 are now available in mp3. Thanks to sqweek for doing the conversion and audio editing. Recordings of the ... [More] lighting talks will be published as soon as I can find them again. Brucee and co. had their own IWP9 down under in March. The Fourth International Workshop for Plan 9 and Inferno is being planned with the help of Coraid and will take place in Athens GA, USA this October, more details will be posted when available. [Less]

Big Blue calls for Interns from Outer Space Eric Van Hensbergen of IBM is looking for interns to hack on Glenda-related projects: A 6 month position working on Plan 9 stuff for a DOE project (http://www.research.ibm.com/hare). The period would be ... [More] some time between Sept of this year and August of next. Requirements: A strong background in C programming, ideally with Plan 9 and/or Inferno experience. Graduate students or post graduates are preferred. Interested parties need to send their resume and availability before June 2, 2009, and will need to be interviewed by phone by the end of next week. There will be a second position for for a separate (but somewhat related) 3 month project in the future, more info will be posted when available, it will probably be during the summer of 2010. You can send your resumes and recommendation letters to ericvh(a)gmail(.)com [Less]

9P implementation news roundup Various new and updated 9P implementations have surfaced lately: J9P/StyxLib is a Java implementation by Bernd R. Fix that includes both Plan 9 and Inferno auth support. Ever prolific Kris Maglione has released a new ... [More] client Python implementation, that for now is part of the wmii tree. And finally Duat 6, a C client/server implementation is out. [Less]

Happy Easter Bunny Day! (Thanks Harka Gyozo for the image!)

Plan 9 in GSoC - get your apps in now! Plan 9 has been accepted this year as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. The Plan 9 group accepts projects related to Plan 9 and related technologies such as Inferno, Plan 9 from User Space ... [More] , v9fs, 9vx, and Glendix. If you're a student and you like any of these technologies you should apply immediately to GSoC with your project proposal(s). Time is running out: the deadline for student applications is April 3, 19:00 UTC. Comments will be possible after that point, but the application may not be edited after that date. We're happy to entertain any ideas related to these technologies, and we've got a page of suggestions for you to consider. Write up a proposal for one of them On the off chance (hah!) that Plan 9 doesn't have what you're looking for this summer, check out the list of other organizations participating. GSoC is a really great program, but you've got to move fast if you're interested. Get moving! [Less]

New XCPU stable release, Live CD, logo and website. Another bit of new old news: XCPU 1.2.2 is the new stable XCPU release. The XCPU folks have also put together a Fedora-based LiveCD so you can easily demo and play around with XCPU in your ... [More] basement's clusters: XCPU LiveCD 1.0. And finally XCPU has got a new website at SourceForge and a new beautiful logo with Glenda and Tux hanging from a tree: [Less]