Not dead; more like Schrödinger's OS. On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 3:16 PM <s...@9front.org> wrote:
> most of these answers don't really answer the question everyone knows > op is asking. why do we always play these games? > > the answer is: no, vanilla plan 9 is not still alive. > > background: > > plan 9's creators all left bell labs many years ago, and none of them > use plan 9 anymore[0]. bell labs itself has changed hands a couple of > times since development of plan 9 came to its ignoble end. yes, some > third parties occasionally tinker. richard miller puts out code that > can be run on raspberry pi hardware. some other former heavy users > occasionally push piecemeal bits of personal projects into the public > eye. nobody takes any of it seriously because none of them really use > plan 9 to do anything people use computers to do[1]. which is not to > say their efforts aren't appreciated. thanks, guys. > > for some reason, when interested newbs show up on this mailing list > asking this same question, which happens from time to time, they're > always made to believe there exists a thriving community of devoted > plan 9 from bell labs users eager to point them towards resources > useful for running plan 9 on a computer manufactured after sbc > rebranded itself as at&t. > > 9front was created in 2011 because by then it had already been > apparent for several years that this was a baldfaced lie. > > failing a massive leak of all the code 9fans will swear to you they > are running on their modern computers, your choices include: > > - 9front (new drivers, modern cryptography, useful new programs) > - 9legacy (an attempt to combine patches from all extant personally > maintained copies of the plan 9 source tree) > > don't thank me until you've tried to get straight answers to follow-up > questions. > > sl > > [0] http://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.2.3 > > [1] i'm typing this on a thinkpad x250, over intel wifi/wpa2, running > 1920x1080 on the native lcd. it's running plan 9, but is sure ain't > vanilla[2]. > > [2] oh yeah, all the code is available here: > http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf27e6479d8812712-M70656f21014de2c05da95e6a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
