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| <font size=+1><b>Plan 9 from User Space</b></font> |
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| <a href="man/man1/intro.html">overview</a> |
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| <a href="http://cvs.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/cvs/plan9">cvsweb</a> |
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| Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port) |
| is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native |
| <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/">Plan 9</a> |
| environment to Unix-like operating systems. |
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| <b>supported systems</b> |
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| Linux <font size=-1>(x86, PowerPC, and ARM)</font>, |
| FreeBSD <font size=-1>(x86)</font>, |
| Mac OS X <font size=-1>(Power PC)</font>, |
| NetBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>, |
| OpenBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>, |
| SunOS <font size=-1>(Sparc)</font>. |
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| <b>getting started</b> |
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| Start with the overview in |
| <a href="man/man1/intro.html"><i>intro</i>(1)</a>. |
| For information on installing the system, see |
| <a href="man/man1/install.html"><i>install</i>(1)</a>. |
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| <b>download</b> |
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| latest tree: <a href="plan9port.tgz">plan9port.tgz</a> |
| <font size=-1>(<a href="/cgi-bin/info.cgi?file=/plan9port/plan9port.tgz">date and checksums</a>; |
| <a href="/usr/local/plan9/CHANGES">list of recent changes</a>; |
| <a href="/usr/local/plan9/LICENSE">license</a>)</font> |
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| <b>acknowledgements</b> |
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| Most obviously, plan9port derives from |
| <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9">Plan 9 from Bell Labs</a> |
| and would not exist without the work of the Plan 9 team over the |
| past many years. |
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| Rob Pike suggested the original X11 port of libdraw years ago, |
| as part of drawterm, and strongly encouraged the Mac OS X work. |
| He has also been a consistent source of good ideas to hide |
| the ugliness of modern Unix. |
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| William Josephson handled |
| <a href="man/man1/troff.html"><i>troff</i>(1)</a> |
| (with Taj Khattra) and many of |
| the supporting programs. He also inspired the thread library |
| clean-up and has ported a handful of applications. |
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| Andrey Mirtchovski and Axel Belinfante have done significant |
| work dealing with X11 corner cases and fine-tuning |
| <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>. |
| Axel never tires of finding bugs in the SunOS port. |
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| Latchesar Ionkov has contributed many fixes to tricky bugs, and |
| got <a href="man/man4/factotum.html"><i>factotum</i>(4)</a> up and running. |
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| Many other people have provided help, |
| ported programs, written bug reports, |
| sent useful patches, and gotten plan9port running on new |
| systems. |
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| Bigelow & Holmes, Inc. created the screen fonts in the |
| <i>luc</i>, <i>lucm</i>, <i>lucsans</i>, and <i>pelm</i> |
| directories and granted permission to redistribute them with plan9port. |
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| Thanks to all. |
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| <b>contact</b> |
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| Russ Cox <font size=-1>(<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>) |
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| <b>unix extracts</b> |
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| The UTF-8 library, the formatted print library, |
| the buffered I/O library, the (Unicode-capable) regular expression |
| library, and mk are available in packaging separate from plan9port. |
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| See <a href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/">http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/</a>. |
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| <b>history</b> |
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| <a href="http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/9pm/README"> |
| An early version |
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| of Plan 9 from User Space for Windows. Only for reference. |
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| <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ureg.html"> |
| Sean Quinlan's 9pm |
| </a> − a port of an earlier Plan 9 (including <a href="man/man1/sam.html"><i>sam</i>(1)</a>) to Windows |
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| <a href="http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/9term/"> |
| Matty Farrow's 9term |
| </a> − a native X11 version that inspired <a href="man/man1/9term.html"><i>9term</i>(1)</a> |
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| <a href="http://unauthorised.org/dhog/9wm.html">David Hogan's 9wm</a> |
| and |
| <a href="ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Source/9menu.shar.gz">Arnold Robbins's 9menu</a> − precursor to |
| <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a> |
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| <a href="http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/">Byron Rakitzis's rc</a> − a mostly-compatible clone of Plan 9's <a href="man/man1/rc.html"><i>rc</i>(1)</a> |
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| <a href="http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/">Gary Capell's wily</a> − an <a href="man/man1/acme.html"><i>acme</i>(1)</a>-inspired editor |
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