Jehanne: Plan 9 with a POSIX layer

This is not entirely un-interesting: Jehanne's sole developer took Plan 9 and added a couple of convenience improvements, like a library to support POSIX. As a proof of concept, the mksh was ported to it. I heard rumors that NetSurf could be ported as well - that would make Jehanne the first "Plan-9-like" operating system with a decent web browser.

I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

I've run plan 9 already, kind of a interesting OS. I'd be interested in trying this one.

Let us know when they release an iso. AFAIKS it's still just source code.

The interesting part is, I discovered this project earlier today, via your plan 9 text editor links in a previous post.

It seems plan9(base) is getting a little more attention recently. I think another project is called HarveyOS(just source so far). But so far the only iso's I could find were plan9(old) and 9front.

Harvey OS is one of the projects used for Jehanne, according to the README.

I tried to use Plan 9 once, but I couldn't get my brain around it, if they can make it more intuitive, I may try it again.

Originally Posted by fatmac I tried to use Plan 9 once, but I couldn't get my brain around it, if they can make it more intuitive, I may try it again.

I'm curious what part of plan9 you couldn't "get".

My biggest hurdle was figuring out the WM(rio). It is also hard to figure out what is installed. Luckily I'm decent on a terminal.

rio's documentation is OK, I'd say. Rob Pike usually talks a lot about what he did, waiting for someone to pat him on the back.

In case you were wondering.

Originally Posted by YesItsMe In case you were wondering.

Now I'm wondering if you built that from source. Reading the docs make it look like it might be fairly easy. Any tips?

Yes, I did.

Originally Posted by Mill J Any tips?

Wait for ISOs.

Building and running it on your existing operating system is fairly easy though - the Jehanne toolchain is quite usable and its documentation is good enough. Remember that this project lacks manpower yet, so while it has a couple of nice additions when compared to the Bell Labs distribution, there will be rough edges. Also, if you're already using deadpixi's sam editor, you'll probably wonder about missing features - the Lucent Public License is not really compatible with the GPL.