Inferno Distributed Operating System

New 9vx version Fast as the heels of the first public release comes version 0.11 with a bunch of bug fixes and some extra features. On MacOS X it includes experimental native GUI support and fixes the cpu-hogging bug. To download the the binary distribution go to the 9vx home and to the vx32 home for the source code.

New 9vx version Fast as the heels of the first public release comes version 0.11 with a bunch of bug fixes and some extra features. On MacOS X it includes experimental native GUI support and fixes the cpu-hogging bug. To download the the binary distribution go to the 9vx home and to the vx32 home for the source code.

Fast as the heels of the first public release comes version 0.11 with a bunch of bug fixes and some extra features. On MacOS X it includes experimental native GUI support and fixes the cpu-hogging bug. To download the the binary distribution go to ... [More] [the 9vx home](http://swtch.com/9vx/) and to [the vx32 home](http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/) for the source code. [Less]

Announcing 9vx Russ Cox announced in 9fans 9vx, a port of the Plan 9 kernel to run as a user space process on *nix systems (including OS X, and a win32 port is apparently feasible) using the vx32 sandboxing framework he developed with Bryan Ford at ... [More] MIT. It can execute unmodified Plan 9 i386 binaries, and includes all the standard file servers like networking, graphics and audio. It is still experimental, and people have reported some issues with the OS X version, but seems to work fairly well under Linux. For more information see: http://swtch.com/9vx/ - 9vx homepage http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/ - vx32 homepage Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86 - Paper presented at Usenix 2008 about vx32 and 9vx. Update: Andrey Mirtchovski reports that using the -F flag so 9vx doesn't fork into the background solves the issues with OS X (a proper fix will come soon). [Less]

Venti servers survey Russ Cox has posted to 9fans asking for people who run venti servers to send him some stats to survey for usage patterns. If you want to contribute all you have to do is run the following commands: hget ... [More] http://localhost:8000/storage >/tmp/vstats hget http://localhost:8000/index >>/tmp/vstats mail -s 'venti survey' [email protected] </tmp/vstats (Obviously replace 'localhost:8000' with the the address of the http interface for your venti server if needed.) [Less]

Venti servers survey Russ Cox has posted to 9fans asking for people who run venti servers to send him some stats to survey for usage patterns. If you want to contribute all you have to do is run the following commands: hget ... [More] http://localhost:8000/storage >/tmp/vstats hget http://localhost:8000/index >>/tmp/vstats mail -s 'venti survey' [email protected] </tmp/vstats (Obviously replace 'localhost:8000' with the the address of the http interface for your venti server if needed.) [Less]

Announcing 9vx Russ Cox announced in 9fans 9vx, a port of the Plan 9 kernel to run as a user space process on *nix systems (including OS X, and a win32 port is apparently feasible) using the vx32 sandboxing framework he developed with Bryan Ford at ... [More] MIT. It can execute unmodified Plan 9 i386 binaries, and includes all the standard file servers like networking, graphics and audio. It is still experimental, and people have reported some issues with the OS X version, but seems to work fairly well under Linux. For more information see: http://swtch.com/9vx/ - 9vx homepage http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/ - vx32 homepage Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86 - Paper presented at Usenix 2008 about vx32 and 9vx. Update: Andrey Mirtchovski reports that using the -F flag so 9vx doesn't fork into the background solves the issues with OS X (a proper fix will come soon). [Less]

Russ Coy has posted to 9fans asking for people who run venti servers to send him some stats to survey for usage patterns. If you want to contribute all you have to do is run the following commands: hget http://localhost:8000/storage ... [More] >/tmp/vstats hget http://localhost:8000/index >>/tmp/vstats mail -s 'venti survey' [email protected] [Less]

Russ Cox [announced](http://9fans.net/archive/2008/06/403) in 9fans [9vx](http://swtch.com/9vx/), a port of the Plan 9 kernel to run as a user space process on *nix systems (including OS X, and a win32 port is apparently feasible) using the ... [More] [vx32](http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/) sandboxing framework he developed with Bryan Ford at MIT. It can execute unmodified Plan 9 i386 binaries, and includes all the standard file servers like networking, graphics and audio. It is still experimental, and people have reported some issues with the OS X version, but seems to work fairly well under Linux. For more information see: * [http://swtch.com/9vx/](http://swtch.com/9vx/) - 9vx homepage * [http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/](http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/) - vx32 homepage * [Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86](http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/vx32:usenix08-abs.html) - Paper presented at Usenix 2008 about vx32 and 9vx. *Update:* Andrey Mirtchovski reports that using the -F flag so 9vx doesn't fork into the backg... [Less]

Inferno DS gets a x6 perf boost Salva Peiró continues his amazing work on Inferno port to the Nintendo DS and has announced in the inferno-ds google group that after enabling the MPU (ARM CP15 Protection Unit) and caches, he measured a six fold ... [More] performance improvement. His perception is "that it's similar in speed [to] launching emu on a standard pc (2 or 3 years old)." And this is all without JIT, which gives extra margin for improvement in case it is ever needed. He finishes mentioning "I was worried about the performance one could achieve running Inferno on the DS, needless to say now all my worries about that have disappeared." Shortly afterwards he posted a reply to his announcement saying that he still want to test the changes a bit more before committing them to the official repo, but he attached a patch for everyone interested to test. [Less]