Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Nov 2008 22:45 UTC, submitted by pablo_marx
Linux distributions come and go by the dozens almost every day, and most of them live and die an unknown, irrelevant life, mostly because no, changing three icons and adding the suffix '-nix' to any random word doesn't make it different from Ubuntu. Anyway, sometimes, a new distribution is started that brings something new to the table. One such "distribution" is Glendix, which aims to combine the Linux kernel with the userpsace tools from Plan 9. Distribution is probably not the right term for this project.
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Member since:2006-09-25
That looks photoshopped. I can tell from the pixels, having seen quite a few in my time.
RE[3]: Nice name choice
by sbergman27 on Thu 27th Nov 2008 02:47
in reply to "RE[2]: Nice name choice"
Member since:2005-07-24
That looks photoshopped.
Possibly. But the port is real. More information on the port to BlueGene/L hardware is here:
http://tinyurl.com/5d83r3
Edited 2008-11-27 03:04 UTC
Member since:2005-08-07
Ummm... No, not photoshopped. Plan 9 on BlueGene was reported on Slashdot a while ago:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1215253
Plan 9 isn't some fly-by-night OS. It was written at Bell Labs as the experimental successor to UNIX. A number of features incorporated into UNIX have come from it /proc, devfs, and the Unicode to name a few.
Obligatory wikipedia mention:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
The authors are the same guys who originally took part in writing UNIX. It goes without saying that they know what they're doing.
It doesn't have to be Linux to run on a supercomputing cluster. 
GC
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Glenda, the bunny, is the Plan 9 mascot. Like Tux the penguin is for Linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda,_the_Plan_9_Bunny
And Glenda's supercomputing cluster at IBM:
http://tinyurl.com/2bz6mf
Edited 2008-11-26 23:10 UTC