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9 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <base href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/">
10 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <title>Plan 9 from User Space</title>
12 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <body bgcolor=#ffffff>
14 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td><td width=20>
15 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
17 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <img src="dist/spaceglenda100.png" alt="Space Glenda">
18 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </center>
19 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
21 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <font size=+1><b>Plan 9 from User Space</b></font>
22 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </center>
23 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
25 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/intro.html">overview</a>
27 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="screenshots/">screen shots</a>
29 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/">manual</a>
31 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/install.html">install notes</a>
33 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/cvs.html">cvs</a>
35 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="unix/">unix</a>
36 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </center>
37 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
38 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port)
39 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native
40 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/">Plan 9</a>
41 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull environment to Unix-like operating systems.
43 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=20><td></table>
44 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>supported systems</b>
46 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td>
47 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
48 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Linux <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
49 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull FreeBSD <font size=-1>(x86)</font>,
50 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Mac OS X <font size=-1>(Power PC)</font>,
51 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull SunOS <font size=-1>(Sparc)</font>.
54 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=20><td></table>
55 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>getting started</b>
57 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td>
58 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
59 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Start with the overview in
60 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/intro.html"><i>intro</i>(1)</a>.
61 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull For information on installing the system, see
62 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/install.html"><i>Install</i>(1)</a>.
65 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=20><td></table>
66 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>download</b>
68 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td>
69 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
70 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull latest tree: <a href="plan9port.tgz">plan9port.tgz</a>
71 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <font size=-1>(<a href="/cgi-bin/info.cgi?file=/plan9port/plan9port.tgz">date and checksums</a>)</font>
74 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=20><td></table>
75 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>acknowledgements</b>
77 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td>
78 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
80 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Most obviously, plan9port derives from
81 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9">Plan 9 from Bell Labs</a>
82 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull and would not exist without the work of the Plan 9 team over the
83 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull past many years.
85 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
87 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Rob Pike suggested the original X11 port of libdraw years ago,
88 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull as part of drawterm, and strongly encouraged the Mac OS X work.
89 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull He has also been a consistent source of good ideas to hide
90 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull the ugliness of modern Unix.
92 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
94 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull William Josephson handled
95 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/troff.html"><i>troff</i>(1)</a>
96 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull (with Taj Khattra) and many of
97 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull the supporting programs. He also inspired the recent thread library
98 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull clean-up and has ported a handful of applications.
100 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
102 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Andrey Mirtchovski and Axel Belinfante have done significant
103 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull work dealing with X11 corner cases and fine-tuning
104 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>.
105 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Axel never tires of finding bugs in the SunOS port.
107 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
109 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Latchesar Ionkov has contributed many fixes to tricky bugs.
111 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
113 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Many other people have provided help,
114 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull ported programs, written bug reports,
115 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull sent useful patches, and gotten plan9port running on new
116 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull systems.
118 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
120 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Thanks to all.
122 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </table>
124 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=20><td></table>
125 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>contact</b>
127 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td>
128 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
129 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Russ Cox <font size=-1>(<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>)
130 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </table>
133 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=20><td></table>
134 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>unix extracts</b>
136 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td>
137 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
138 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull The UTF-8 library, the formatted print library,
139 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull the buffered I/O library, the (Unicode-capable) regular expression
140 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull library, and mk are available in packaging separate from plan9port.
142 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=10><td></table>
144 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull See <a href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/">http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/</a>.
145 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </table>
147 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <Table><tr height=20><td></table>
148 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>history</b>
150 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td width=20><td>
151 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr><td><td>
152 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ureg.html">
153 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Sean Quinlan's 9pm
154 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </a> − a port of an earlier Plan 9 (including <a href="man/man1/sam.html"><i>sam</i>(1)</a>) to Windows
156 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/9term/">
157 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Matty Farrow's 9term
158 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </a> − a native X11 version that inspired <a href="man/man1/9term.html"><i>9term</i>(1)</a>
160 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://unauthorised.org/dhog/9wm.html">David Hogan's 9wm</a>
162 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/1994-November/003081.html">Arnold Robbin's 9menu</a> − precursor to
163 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>
165 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <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>
167 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <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
168 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </table>
171 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <tr height=10><td>
172 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </table>
