A research team from the Spanish university Rey Juan Carlos is working on a new operating system that is based on Plan 9 and is partly written in Go, the new programming language from Google.
The students of the team LSUB announced the brand new operating system Clive on Friday. They are for the purpose of the “beloved” Plan 9 from Bell Labs again to breathe new life into, but also to make use of software stacks that are written in Go. Clive is written in the traditional C and the open-source programming language Go, which in 2009, Google was introduced and as regards syntax very similar to C. Go would be a simpler alternative to complex programming languages and offers the ability to have multiple processes at the same time to perform by means of so-called ‘goroutines’. The students want to Clive with particular bets for cloud applications. Clive works with the ZX file system, which is derived from an unknown UNIX file system. The OS is running on a custom Nix kernel, which was previously developed by the university, and used parts of Plan 9 from Bell Labs. That system is derived from Unix and has a microkernel. Plan 9 can be a POSIX environment to simulate, allowing Unix applications to the system can be ported. The operating system was in 2000 open source.
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