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

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.