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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Ongoing projects:
- Kernel patches: a.out binary loaders, system calls implementation
- netfs: Implement /net as kernel-level pseudo filesystem