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21 <font size=+1><b>Plan 9 from User Space</b></font>
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25 <a href="man/man1/intro.html">overview</a>
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27 <a href="screenshots/">screen shots</a>
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29 <a href="man/">manual</a>
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31 <a href="man/man1/install.html">install notes</a>
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33 <a href="/usr/local/plan9/">browse</a>
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35 <a href="man/man1/hg.html">hg</a>
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37 <a href="http://code.swtch.com/plan9port">hgweb</a>
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39 <a href="unix/">unix</a>
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41 <a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/science/plan9port-be">Belorussian</a>
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44 Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port)
45 is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native
46 <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/">Plan 9</a>
47 environment to Unix-like operating systems.
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50 <b>supported systems</b>
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54 Linux <font size=-1>(x86, x86-64, PowerPC, and ARM)</font>,
55 FreeBSD <font size=-1>(x86, x86-64)</font>,
56 Mac OS X <font size=-1>(x86, x86-64, and Power PC)</font>,
57 NetBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
58 OpenBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
59 SunOS <font size=-1>(x86-64 and Sparc)</font>,
60 Dragonfly BSD <font size=-1>(x86-64)</font>.
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64 <b>getting started</b>
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68 Start with the overview in
69 <a href="man/man1/intro.html"><i>intro</i>(1)</a>.
70 For information on installing the system, see
71 <a href="man/man1/install.html"><i>install</i>(1)</a>.
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75 <b>download</b>
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79 latest tree: <a href="plan9port.tgz">plan9port.tgz</a>
80 <font size=-1>(<a href="/cgi-bin/info.cgi?file=/plan9port/plan9port.tgz">date and checksums</a>;
81 <a href="http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/commits/all">list of recent changes</a>;
82 <a href="/usr/local/plan9/LICENSE">license</a>)</font>
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87 <b>acknowledgements</b>
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92 Most obviously, plan9port derives from
93 <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9">Plan 9 from Bell Labs</a>
94 and would not exist without the work of the Plan 9 team over the
95 past many years.
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99 Rob Pike suggested the original X11 port of libdraw years ago,
100 as part of drawterm, and strongly encouraged the Mac OS X work.
101 He has also been a consistent source of good ideas to hide
102 the ugliness of modern Unix.
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106 William Josephson handled
107 <a href="man/man1/troff.html"><i>troff</i>(1)</a>
108 (with Taj Khattra) and many of
109 the supporting programs. He also inspired the thread library
110 clean-up and has ported a handful of applications.
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114 Andrey Mirtchovski and Axel Belinfante have done significant
115 work dealing with X11 corner cases and fine-tuning
116 <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>.
117 Axel never tires of finding bugs in the SunOS port.
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121 Latchesar Ionkov has contributed many fixes to tricky bugs, and
122 got <a href="man/man4/factotum.html"><i>factotum</i>(4)</a> up and running.
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126 Many other people have provided help,
127 ported programs, written bug reports,
128 sent useful patches, and gotten plan9port running on new
129 systems.
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133 Bigelow &amp; Holmes, Inc. created the screen fonts in the
134 <i>luc</i>, <i>lucm</i>, <i>lucsans</i>, and <i>pelm</i>
135 directories and granted permission to redistribute them with plan9port.
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139 Thanks to all.
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144 <b>contact</b>
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148 mailing list <font size=-1>(<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/plan9port-dev">plan9port-dev on Google groups</a>)</font><br />
149 issue tracker <font size=-1>(<a href="http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues/">http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues/</a>)</font><br />
150 Russ Cox <font size=-1>(<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>)</font><br />
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154 <b>unix extracts</b>
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158 The UTF-8 library, the formatted print library,
159 the buffered I/O library, the (Unicode-capable) regular expression
160 library, and mk are available in packaging separate from plan9port.
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164 See <a href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/">http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/</a>.
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168 <b>history</b>
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172 <a href="http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/9pm/README">
173 An early version
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175 of Plan 9 from User Space for Windows. Only for reference.
176 <br>
177 <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ureg.html">
178 Sean Quinlan's 9pm
179 </a> &#8722; a port of an earlier Plan 9 (including <a href="man/man1/sam.html"><i>sam</i>(1)</a>) to Windows
180 <br>
181 <a href="http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/9term/">
182 Matty Farrow's 9term
183 </a> &#8722; a native X11 version that inspired <a href="man/man1/9term.html"><i>9term</i>(1)</a>
184 <br>
185 <a href="http://unauthorised.org/dhog/9wm.html">David Hogan's 9wm</a>
186 and
187 <a href="ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Source/9menu.shar.gz">Arnold Robbins's 9menu</a> &#8722; precursor to
188 <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>
189 <br>
190 <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>
191 <br>
192 <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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