Advanced Namespace Tools (ANTS)
Dev tools
operating system tooling
SHOW HN2013
131points
45comments
#163of 1,739 in 2013
Top 10%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Plan 9 design is elegant and worth exploring
From 2 comments
Plan 9 is "Unix done right." Think of everything everyone loves about Unix, especially its ability to connect components together via pipes and plain text files, and take it to…
emin_gun_sirer on HNI have heard Rob Pike describe Plan 9, or at least the kernel, as "The most object-oriented system ever built," (apologies if I paraphrased incorrectly). He was referring to the…
enneff on HN
Interesting, outsider project
From 2 comments
Outsider art is an important part of the ecosystem. Nice work.
delano on HNVery cool work. I am glad there are people still working on Plan9 and its concepts. I think it is a very underappreciated OS but its time will come atleast its ideas. Kudos!
det23x on HN
Objections
Documentation does not explain what the software is for
From 1 comment
It's interesting, but I can't tell from the documentation what it's actually for. It's apparently for clustering, but what does it do? I had downloaded the image a week or two…
1337p337 on HN
Plan 9 ecosystem is small and ideas often go nowhere
From 1 comment
I've had a lot of ideas like that also, but be warned - the Plan 9 landscape is absolutely littered with speculative, half-baked amateur ideas that go absolutely nowhere. I know…
mycroftiv on HN
Requests
Explain use cases and what clustering means
From 3 comments
I've heard of Plan 9, but I honestly have no idea what this is. But it sounds interesting... could you give a briefer to someone that is not familiar with Plan 9?
kirbysayshi on HNOne thing you could explain for the benefit of this thread is what "clustering" software is and what it's used for. Is it the same thing as a "distributed system"?
msutherl on HNIt's interesting, but I can't tell from the documentation what it's actually for. It's apparently for clustering, but what does it do? I had downloaded the image a week or two…
1337p337 on HN
Questions
What does it build that does not already exist?
From 1 comment
Can you say in one sentence what it is that you built that doesn't already exist, and why it is important?
mcartyem on HN
Alternatives named
Standard Plan 9
From 1 comment
It's free form clustering software. Standard Plan 9 tends to have a pretty rigid structure for how all the services on the grid are organized. This is an attempt to make things…
mycroftiv on HN
XCPU
From 1 comment
It depends a lot on definitions. Protecting and backing up your data against hardware failure is a big part of what I want this software to do, but it is not a drop in…
mycroftiv on HN