ananta is a derivative of Inferno (a distributed operating system originally developed at Bell Labs and currently maintained by Vita Nuova) aimed at modernization for mass adoption.
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Warning
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ananta is not ready for production use. |
Applications are written in limbo and compiled for dis to run anywhere on a network in a portable operating system.
The design has three principles:
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All resources are named and accessed as files.
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One protocol (9p) allows uniform access to these resources.
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A single local namespace joins resources provided by remote services.
In this manner, programs can access resources using only the file operations open, read, write, and close.
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Note
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That is to say, networked participants only need to communicate with 9p instead of http(s)/dav, smtp, imap/pop, ssh/scp, ftp, ssl/tls, smb, ntp, ppp, ldap, dhcp, dns, sip, … |
The following system/architecture pairs are supported:
| 386 | amd64 | arm | 68020 | mips | power | sparc | spim | thumb | |
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DragonFlyBSD |
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FreeBSD |
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HP/UX |
o |
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Irix |
x |
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Inferno |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Linux |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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MacOSX |
x |
x |
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NetBSD |
x |
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Plan 9 |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Solaris |
o |
x |
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Unixware |
x |
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Windows |
x |
To install
This will create and install the libraries, limbo compiler, emu (if running hosted), and auxiliary commands.
Now execute emu and you should see the sh prompt awaiting your input:
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Documentation is at https://{name}.bryton.io/manual.