Available New release of the project 9front , in which since 2011, the community has been developing by the Bell Labs Fork distributed operating system PLAN 9 . Ready-made installation assemblies are formed for architectures i386, x86_64 and Raspberry Pi 1-4. Project code is distributed under the open license Lucent Public License, based on the IBM Public License, but the lack of the lack of the requirement of the initial texts for derivatives works.
from the features of 9front, the addition of additional protection mechanisms, expansion of equipment support, improved work in wireless networks, adding new file systems, implementation of the sound subsystem and codials/decoders of sound formats, support of USB, creating a Mothra Web-browser, replacing the bootter, replacing the boot and initialization systems, the use of data encryption on the disk, support for Unicode, the presence of emulator real mode , support for AMD64 and 64-bit address space.
The new version is provided support full-fledged work on the laptop mnt reform , including support for graphics, sound, Ethernet, USB, PCIE, Trackball, SD cards and NVME. The built-in Wi-Fi has not yet been supported on MNT Reform, instead of which an external wireless adapter is recommended. The system implements new programs bar (display of the panel with the battery charge indicator, date and time), ktrans (performs input transliteration), riow ( hot key manager) and doom (DOOM game).
The main idea of the PLAN 9 is associated with the washing of differences between local and remote resources. The system is a distributed environment based on three basic principles: all resources can be considered as a hierarchical set of files; There is no difference in access to local and external resources; Each process has its own changeable space of names. To create a unified distributed hierarchy of resources files, the 9p protocol is used.