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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="man/">manual</a>
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<a href="man/man1/install.html">install notes</a>
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<a href="man/man1/hg.html">hg</a>
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<a href="http://code.swtch.com/plan9port">hgweb</a>
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<a href="unix/">unix</a>
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<a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/science/plan9port-be">Belorussian</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, x86-64, PowerPC, and ARM)</font>,
FreeBSD <font size=-1>(x86, x86-64)</font>,
Mac OS X <font size=-1>(x86, x86-64, and Power PC)</font>,
NetBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
OpenBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
SunOS <font size=-1>(x86-64 and Sparc)</font>,
Dragonfly BSD <font size=-1>(x86-64)</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="http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/commits/all">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 &amp; 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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mailing list <font size=-1>(<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/plan9port-dev">plan9port-dev on Google groups</a>)</font><br />
issue tracker <font size=-1>(<a href="http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues/">http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues/</a>)</font><br />
Russ Cox <font size=-1>(<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>)</font><br />
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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> &#8722; 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> &#8722; 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> &#8722; 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> &#8722; 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> &#8722; an <a href="man/man1/acme.html"><i>acme</i>(1)</a>-inspired editor
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