What is Plan 9?
A distributed operating system, developed as the research successor to Unix. Plan 9 is most notable for representing all system interfaces, including those required for networking and the user-interface, through the filesystem rather than specialized interfaces.
What is Linux?
An operating system kernel used by a family of Unix-like operating systems. In the early days, Linux rapidly accumulated developers and users who adopted code from the Minix, GNU and BSD projects for use with the new operating system. Today the Linux kernel receives contributions from thousands of programmers.
So, what is Glendix?
Plan 9 was Bell Labs' second shot at making an ideal general purpose operating system, with the goal of fixing every mistake made in Unix. Glendix aims to bring ideas from Plan 9 to Linux, one of the most popular open source kernels. The result hopes to be a much improved operating system with richer, better-designed features.
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Documentation
Because we are a small and new project, documentation is quite sparse. We do however, have a full report on the basics and shorter, more concise paper on the overall architecture.
When in doubt, look at the code. Or maybe contact one of us to clear it all up :)
We do recommend reading the shorter IWP9 paper.
For information on how to setup Glendix on your computer see our quickstart document.
Report
A 27 page project "report" on the what, why and how of Glendix. Covers most of the fundamentals of the design, but some aspects may be outdated. Read it here (pdf)
IWP9 Paper
This is a shorter, more concise overview of the project. It was submitted and presented at the 3rd international workshop on Plan 9. More up to date than the report, but we code everyday, so no guarantees! Get it here (pdf)