9front, a fork of Plan 9, blends eccentric design with a quirky community to preserve one of Unix’s strangest legacies.
Intriguing article, it’s unfortunate they didn’t go into detail about how it’s different (even at a high level) beyond the intro.
Will have to go look for more info.
Are you curious? 9front is nerdy as fuk. I totally recommend giving it a whirl.
FYI … 9front is useless. Its a programmer’s toy. An OS enthusiasts challenge.The site. https://9front.org/
The holy document. The Dash1.
This is the funniest piece of technical documentation I’ve ever read.
http://fqa.9front.org/dash1.gefs-sp1.pdfHow is it different? It’s GUI-native. In order to run something, you use ‘mouse chords’ to draw a terminal window, and then you can run stuff in that window. Last time I used it I started to learn acme, the editing environment, which required more mouse chords. I poked at it for a week or so and moved on.
