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From: spyros lalis <lalis@inf...>; Subject: [9fans] next iwp9 Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:07:28 +0200 Dear 9fans, With the initiative of Francisco Ballesteros and Sape Mullender, a time and a place have been set for the next International Workshop on Plan 9. IWP9 will be held on October 30 and 31 in Volos, Greece. (located by the sea, between Athens and Thessaloniki)
The home page is here.
The newer version of venti (our block store) previously known as nventi has been promoted to be the standard venti. The distribution and sources are now up to date.
On the 20th anniversary of Plan 9's creation:
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:15:28 -0400 From: Sape Mullender <sape@huygens.org> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: [9fans] 2nd International Workshop on Plan 9
We have started preparations to host the Second very International Workshop on Plan 9 at Bell Labs MH in December of this year, almost certainly Monday December 3 and Tuesday December 4.
The call for papers is here.
For directions to Bell Labs MH, see here.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is participating in the Google Summer of Code, see gsoc.cat-v.org for more information.
VESA video support has been added to the default distribution and the kernel has new PC MMU code that has a cleaner separation of virtual and physical addresses, which should address the various mmukmap2 panics that people have reported over the years.
To boot one of these new kernels you will need to copy the new /386/9load to your 9fat or floppy disk so that it can cope with the new kernel load address. (It will still handle the old ones too.)
The pc kernels use the BIOS E820 memory map when available rather than poking at each megabyte until they decide there's no more. If you have a system where this causes problems, you can put "*noe820scan=" in plan9.ini, and then please LET US KNOW so we can try to fix them.
There is also a new driver sdmv50xx for the Marvell 88SX5040 family of SATA cards. Thank you to Coraid.
If you see any problems mail 9fans (mailing lists) or submit patches (how to contribute).
uriel - Thu Dec 15 2005 - from posts by rsc's to 9fans: original announcement, update.
Peter Salus, and later Slashdot, broke the news that Dept. 1127, the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs and the birthplace of Unix and Plan 9, has been broken up by Bell Labs management. The various members will be reabsorbed into two or three other departments in the latest internal reorganization.
Sape Mullender wrote to 9fans to reassure that Plan 9 work continues:
1127 ceased to exist some time ago. The department was renamed and got a much longer number which, of course, I can no longer remember. The current split of what's left of 1127 is not considered to be a big deal by most members of the department. There have always been many interdepartmental collaborations, so 1127 has always been more of a management entity than a group/club/fraternity. [...] Plan 9 is alive and reasonably well as our current vehicle for wireless systems research. Plan 9 has gone embedded (but rest assured, all our wireless software runs in user space, using Plan 9's real-time scheduler to make sure it runs when it needs to. Using Plan 9, wireless code becomes useful in a fraction of the time that code can be made to run on all those commercial embedded operating systems (which I do not care to mention) and also much quicker than on Linux which I am sorry to say is just too large and illegible.
Releases will continue with their usual regularity.
uriel - August 19, 2005 (updated by rsc - October 12, 2005)
The slides form Charles Forsyth talk at Libre Software Meeting 2005 are online:
And as an extra, the paper The Ubiquitous File Server in Plan 9
uriel - August 2, 2005
As agreed during WTH, a wiki page to collect the news from the Plan 9 community has been created, feel free to post news items at the top of this page.
uriel - August 1, 2005
