RussCox has ported a great deal of the
PlanNineFromBellLabs functionality to *nix user space.
http://swtch.com/plan9port/
Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port) is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems.
It includes the
RcShell, and many other commands and file servers.
For a list of available programs, libraries and services see the plan9port man pages:
http://man.cat-v.org/p9p/
- supported systems:
- Linux (x86, PowerPC, and ARM),
- FreeBSD (x86),
- Mac OS X (x86 abd Power PC),
- NetBSD (x86 and PowerPC),
- OpenBSD (x86 and PowerPC),
- SunOS (Sparc)
See also 9base, a subset of the command line tools in p9p:
http://tools.suckless.org/9base