To my knowledge this is the set of active projects based on Plan 9: 9atom and 9front are both actively maintained. Both stick strongly to the original Plan 9 from Bell Labs design. AFAIK, 9front introduce more innovations, both in kernel and in user space, but what make it unique is the #cat-v community.
9legacy is not a really fork, but an organized collection of patches, and is still actively maintained. Another non-fork active project is Plan 9-ANTS (http://www.9gridchan.org/ ) which also provides a 9front-based amd64 iso and a free 9P grid online. Harvey's kernel is based on NIX, and AFAIK, it's the only project where NIX development is active. Forsyth's Plan-9k had some development in mid 2017. It's 2015 version was the starting point of Jehanne's kernel, which is my own research operating system (that also includes several of 9front's improvements). Jehanne is the project that diverged most from the original Plan9 design, with its own set of crazy decisions, but currently it's an unstable toy. Giacomo 2018-02-10 3:48 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Huntsman <bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu>: > Just curious as to the state of the union. Is 9front pretty much the de > facto "official" Plan 9 these days, or does anyone still use or maintain any > of the following: > > > 9atom > > NIX > > 9legacy > > The original Bell Labs distribution > > > Thanks for your input! > > > -Ben > >
