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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Member since:2005-07-07
You didn't read correctly the posts, they said that plan9 sucks for desktops not because it's not linux.
And it's true that plan9 sucks for desktop, so it'll probably stay in its niche until a more general-purpose OS will come and kill it (I'm thinking about DragonFly).
This won't be the first innovative OS dead because it failed to become widespread.
Plan9 isn't supposed to be a commercial OS. It is a research OS. A lot of ideas are being used elsewhere, like Linux. Considering Plan9 is a cluster operating system and it wouldn't have any advantages as a standalone desktop system. If it was developed commercially or opensource it would be nice a nice OS for a laptop that could use all the power of the network when connected and effortlessly detach from the network when needed. I don't think that is really the design goal although Plan9 does make it easy to add and subtract machines in the cluster without much issue.
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2005-07-06
You didn't read correctly the posts, they said that plan9 sucks for desktops not because it's not linux.
And it's true that plan9 sucks for desktop, so it'll probably stay in its niche until a more general-purpose OS will come and kill it (I'm thinking about DragonFly).
This won't be the first innovative OS dead because it failed to become widespread..