Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

[Matt <matthpmoreira@gmail.com>]

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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.
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