On Monday, January 17, 2022, at 8:36 PM, Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote: > I'm afraid you got it wrong. Community is mostly centered around 9front. One of the reasons is that it actually works and is still being developed and used by many. Plan 9 is dead, 9front lives on. There is also software developed outside of 9front git repo, by people who use 9front: http://only9fans.com Whether some "secret community" decides to "accept" (or not) 9front as "official" doesn't matter. I see. Now that I look at it, 9fans its more similar to 9front than Plan 9 indeed. My confusion arose from the description being "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs". Besides that, the subreddit is r/plan9, and people seem to talk more often about Plan 9 itself than 9front. Thanks for clearing it up.
On Monday, January 17, 2022, at 9:21 PM, Thaddeus Woskowiak wrote: > All wrong. From my perspective 9front is plan 9 from the future > compared to today's plan 9. 9front development moves at a much faster > pace thanks to adopting tools like mercurial in the past and now git. > That enables devs who are passionate about moving plan 9 forward > commit access using tools they, and most of today's developers are > already intimate with. It has virtualization, modern encryption, > cleaned up pci code, rc fixes, boot clean up, and so much more. > > The mailing list is very active and crawling with devs eager to review > and apply fixes. It has a lot of enthusiastic energy behind it and > keeps the core philosophy of plan 9 alive. This has attracted many > wonderful and talented devs who would have otherwise stumbled with the > old defaults of legacy. > > Personally, I struggled with plan 9 until finding 9front. I run a CPU > server at home 24/7 and it's been running reliably for years. I then > netboot or tcp boot everything else. I love working with this > operating system. That's really great. I'm also interested and quite enthusiastic about working with 9front. Although, I'd have more chances of winning a competition for the worst developer... Thanks for your help. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T395156d4f2b00cde-Mcbcabe564e19fafe76ecbd35 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
