Jehanne is something I’ve been keeping track of, in hopes that rio gets nicer defaults. You should write more about it. :)
I’ve been toying with the notion of hacking a nicer (for me) visual theme, but lack of time prevailed. But I will move my Pi to 9front as soon as possible... R. > On 11 Feb 2018, at 12:26, Giacomo Tesio <giac...@tesio.it> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >
