Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Jun 2007 21:54 UTC, submitted by ericvh
A team comprised of members from Bell-Labs, IBM Research, Sandia National Labs, and Vita Nuova has completed a port of Plan 9 to the Blue Gene supercomputer. Plan 9 kernels are running on both the compute nodes and the I/O nodes and the Ethernet, Torus, Collective Network, Barrier Network, and Management network are all supported. Screenshots are available on the development blog, and a live-demo will be attempted during the USENIX poster session.
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2006-04-21
X-Window? GUI? What flexibility?
You know, the flexibility that allows you to choose WindowMaker or blackbox, GNOME or KDE?
We are talking about an operating system not about a geek-chick magnet! Plan 9 comes with a GUI that has all and more capabilities than X-Window, like network transparency (even if it has no networking code on it) and alpha blending (Porter-Duff algebra... The "Duff" guy worked at bell labs at the time rio, the Plan 9 GUI came to life). I am not saying that it is beautiful, though... But I like it and it gets my work done.
It may have "more capabilities than X Window", but it sorely lacks the one I wrote about in my first post. Yes, there will always be people who really don't give a damn about the state of their windowing system as long as it works, but I suspect those among us who can't work with a system which looks like a camel's rear end are in the majority. And of course although we may all agree that X (the variable, not the window system) looks like a camel's arse, we're very unlikely to all agree on whether A, B, C, Y, or Z doesn't.