Operating Systems – Foundations of Modern Computing - Plan 9 Operating System

💾 Plan 9 from Bell Labs: Distributed Operating System Texts introduce Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a research distributed operating system developed in the late 1980s that extended the Unix principle of "everything is a file" into a network-centric design. The Wikipedia excerpt, offers a comprehensive overview of Plan 9, detailing its history, core design concepts like the 9P protocol and union directories, various software components, and its subsequent reception and impact compared to contemporary operating systems. Excerpts from the Plan 9 Foundation website, outlines the activities of the current copyright holder, including conference organization, participation in Google Summer of Code, and providing access to documentation and downloads for the operating system, reinforcing its ongoing community support and development. Sources highlight that while the official development from Bell Labs concluded, the system continues to be maintained and evolved by the community, with the copyright recently transferring to the Plan 9 Foundation and the license moving to the MIT License.