Plan 9 from the Outer Darkness

A riff on Plan 9 from Outer Space, plus some stuff from NeXTStep/OpenStep and the STEPS VPRI project (ie COLA), plus some tiny influences from LosethOS and Minix.

There is a lot to do.

Components

• OpenFirmware/Xen basis
• Unicode
• A Riff on Cola + Pepsi
  • Based on a mix of Arc + Common Lisp rather than Scheme
• Port filesystem, plumber, styx/9p2000
• Fonts
• Graphics layer like Quartz + OpenGL ES + Cairo/Pango rather than X
• window manager
• shell - repl from hell
  • HLL rather than the usual shell script
  • Pipes
  • Filesystem union/multi-backed stuff so that you can cat/grep etc without having to go through git etc
  • Completions
  • Graphics + mouse integration
    • Somewhat like (Factor/LosethOS)'s repl, where you can 'print', copy, paste, pipe etc graphics
  • Nice movement keys
  • Editor integration
• vm?
• editor - riff on gvim
• tcp/ip stack
• ssh
• webserver
• web browser
• Port Git
• Self hosting development
  • Editor, VCS etc
  • mk, linker
  • apt-alike
• Display media
• Microkernel? Minix/L4 alike, with resurrection/reincarnation server + heartbeat server?