Plan 9: The OS Where Everything is a File (S03 E02)

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Plan 9 is distributed operating system and it is designed to make a network of disparate computers function as a single system no matter where they are.

Links/Resources:
https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/papers/

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:49 What is Plan 9?
6:15 Unique Features
9:23 Everything is a File
16:53 Assembling a Distributed Computer
21:42 Powerful Abstractions Make Writing Powerful Programs Easy
29:01 Was Plan 9 The Original Kubernetes?
34:33 Can Principled Software Succeed in the Marketplace?
40:14 Running WebAssembly on Plan 9
44:16 Running An Intranet on a Distributed OS
45:38 Remote File Systems for Local-first Software
51:27 How do we get this future?

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