Re: [9fans] There is no fork

[Rui Carmo <rui.carmo@gmail.com>]

Jehanne is something I’ve been keeping track of, in hopes that rio gets nicer defaults. You should write more about it. :)

I’ve been toying with the notion of hacking a nicer (for me) visual theme, but lack of time prevailed. But I will move my Pi to 9front as soon as possible...

R.

> On 11 Feb 2018, at 12:26, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
> 
> To my knowledge this is the set of active projects based on Plan 9:
> 
> 9atom and 9front are both actively maintained.
> Both stick strongly to the original Plan 9 from Bell Labs design.
> AFAIK, 9front introduce more innovations, both in kernel and in user
> space, but what make it unique is the #cat-v community.
> 
> 9legacy is not a really fork, but an organized collection of patches,
> and is still actively maintained.
> Another non-fork active project is Plan 9-ANTS
> (http://www.9gridchan.org/ ) which also provides a 9front-based amd64
> iso and a free 9P grid online.
> 
> Harvey's kernel is based on NIX, and AFAIK, it's the only project
> where NIX development is active.
> 
> Forsyth's Plan-9k had some development in mid 2017.
> It's 2015 version was the starting point of Jehanne's kernel, which is
> my own research operating system (that also includes several of
> 9front's improvements).
> Jehanne is the project that diverged most from the original Plan9
> design, with its own set of crazy decisions, but currently it's an
> unstable toy.
> 
> 
> Giacomo
> 
> 2018-02-10 3:48 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>:
>> Just curious as to the state of the union.  Is 9front pretty much the de
>> facto "official" Plan 9 these days, or does anyone still use or maintain any
>> of the following:
>> 
>> 
>> 9atom
>> 
>> NIX
>> 
>> 9legacy
>> 
>> The original Bell Labs distribution
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for your input!
>> 
>> 
>> -Ben
>> 
>> 
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