On Sunday 18 April 2010 13:58:19 erik quanstrom wrote: [purposefully removed context surrounding the following statement:] <snip> > seems awful limiting for a research os. >
Exactly. Plan X proposes an extension of 9 space for the experimental purpose of promoting and supporting an additional class of research vectors using Plan 9 technologies. The official Plan 9 source base is used as a seed platform from which to build one or more alternate Plan 9 based distributions, with the goal of fulfilling a different collection of somewhat higher-level use-cases than what Plan 9 proper is optimized towards. Some examples of research areas and theoretical use-cases that a Plan X project might help foster: * Plan 9 based handheld/phone platform * Personal home distributed network serving 9'ified general purpose end-user applications via a clean yet contemporary gui over 9P * a distribution focused towards increasing the ability of developers to comfortably run a native Plan 9 installation as their day-to-day os at their workplaces * Plan 9 based os for iPad/WePad-like tablet devices The initial milestone for Plan X is simply to stake out an appropriate space somewhere that will facilitate productive collaboration and "greenfield" exchange of ideas between interested parties in a non-hostile environment. If it languishes, so be it - the experiment would then be considered DOA - but at least the space will be there for potential future collaboration: the catalyzing spark of new communities and projects are impossible to predict. <further explanation/ideas abridged, to prevent "TLDR" responses> Respectfully
