Plan 9: The Infinity Notebook
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- #Plan 9
- #UNIX
- #Operating System
- Plan 9 is an OS from Bell Labs, a successor to UNIX, emphasizing network computing and graphics.
- Key features include: 'Everything is a file', Singular Grid computing, Process Isolation, No DLL Hell, Plumber for app interactions, Rune for Unicode handling, and shared address space for threads/procs.
- Plan 9 UI is mouse-oriented but supports keyboard shortcuts via riow for window management and bar for displaying date/time.
- Rio supports auto-suggest (Ctrl+F) and has experimental undo/redo functionality.
- Plumber allows custom rules for app interactions, with rules stored in /mnt/plumb/rules or /sys/lib/plumb/basic.
- Supports Truetype fonts (TTF) with some limitations; fonts are accessed via a virtual filesystem (/n/ttf).
- Graphics capabilities include drawing lines, circles, ellipses, bezier curves, and plotting mathematical functions.
- References include typing Unicode characters, context menu customization, and alternatives in GNU Emacs.