Glendix Home Docs Sources GSoC A distributed operating system, developed as the research successor to Unix . Plan 9 is most notable for representing all system interfaces, including those required for networking and the user-interface, through the filesystem rather than specialized interfaces. An operating system kernel used by a family of Unix-like operating systems. In the early days, Linux rapidly accumulated developers and users who adopted code from the Minix , GNU and BSD projects for use with the new operating system. Today the Linux kernel receives contributions from thousands of programmers. Plan 9 was Bell Labs' second shot at making an ideal general purpose operating system, with the goal of fixing every mistake made in Unix. Glendix aims to bring ideas from Plan 9 to Linux, one of the most popular open source k...