Monday, February 19, 2007

Plan 9, Back to the Seventies!

Back to Seventies?! well, as the title suggests, Plan 9's evolution should be considered to be back in the era of early seventies when geeky research and development associates were engaged in implementing The UNIX and C at the Bell Labs. Yes, Plan 9 has initially been developed by Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Phil Winterbottom at the Bell Labs in 1980s, and later on by the many other associates.

Plan 9, is currently in 4th release since 1992 must not be considered as a yet another UNIX or Linux clone. It's a completely different operating system written right from the scratch for the purpose of research and development.

However, it should not be considered to be limited to academic and research purposes only. Vita Nuova http://www.vitanuova.com/at present exclusively distributes and provides training and support for the Plan 9.

To directly boot from the hard disk, Plan 9 should be installed on a primary partition, otherwise for a floppy boot it can be accommodated in a secondary one.

So, Plan 9 is must for every OS lover who really wants something else than the routines!!

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