<html> <!-- Edit ./^$/,s/<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%/<Table/g Edit ./^$/,s/<Table/<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%/g --> <head> <base href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/"> <title>Plan 9 from User Space</title> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td><td width=20> <tr><td><td> <center> <img src="dist/spaceglenda100.png" alt="Space Glenda"> </center> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> <center> <font size=+1><b>Plan 9 from User Space</b></font> </center> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> <center> <a href="man/man1/intro.html">overview</a> | <a href="screenshots/">screen shots</a> | <a href="man/">manual</a> | <a href="man/man1/install.html">install notes</a> | <a href="/usr/local/plan9/">browse</a> | <a href="man/man1/cvs.html">cvs</a> | <a href="http://cvs.pdos.csail.mit.edu/cvs/plan9">cvsweb</a> | <a href="man/man1/hg.html">hg</a> | <a href="http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9">hgweb</a> | <a href="unix/">unix</a> </center> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table> <b>supported systems</b> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td> <tr><td><td> 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 and 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>. </table> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table> <b>getting started</b> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td> <tr><td><td> 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>. </table> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table> <b>download</b> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td> <tr><td><td> 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://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9/shortlog">list of recent changes</a>; <a href="/usr/local/plan9/LICENSE">license</a>)</font> <br> </table> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table> <b>acknowledgements</b> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td> <tr><td><td> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> Many other people have provided help, ported programs, written bug reports, sent useful patches, and gotten plan9port running on new systems. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> Thanks to all. </table> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table> <b>contact</b> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td> <tr><td><td> Russ Cox <font size=-1>(<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>) </table> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table> <b>unix extracts</b> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td> <tr><td><td> 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. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table> See <a href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/">http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/</a>. </table> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table> <b>history</b> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%> <tr height=10><td width=20><td> <tr><td><td> <a href="http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/9pm/README"> An early version </a> of Plan 9 from User Space for Windows. Only for reference. <br> <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 <br> <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> <br> <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> <br> <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> <br> <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 </table> <tr height=10><td> </table> </body> </html>