Project: FreeOS Plan 9 Description

Name Plan 9 Official site http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ Download from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.html License Plan 9 FAQ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html Description Plan 9 began in the late 1980's to build a system that was centrally administered and cost-effective using cheap modern microcomputers as its computing elements. The idea was to build a time-sharing system out of workstations, but in a novel way. Different computers would handle different tasks: small, cheap machines in people's offices would serve as terminals providing access to large, central, shared resources such as computing servers and file servers. Development Status This OS was recently released to the open source community but it seems to have been a bit too late. There has not been much interest in this promising OS.