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I have read up on 9front a little. It's good to see that people are still working on it. Personally, as someone who's used xNix OSes for >30 years out of pragm
by lproven 4y ago
I have read up on 9front a little. It's good to see that people are still working on it.
Personally, as someone who's used xNix OSes for >30 years out of pragmatism not any love, I find Plan 9 completely inscrutable and unusable.
Years ago there was an Inferno ISO available -- gone now, AFAICT -- and I managed to run it. I mentioned Inferno here:
"Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? Get weird, go ALTERNATIVE"
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/11/01/25_alternative_pc_operating_systems/ https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/11/01/25_alternative_...
I found the Inferno desktop a lot more navigable and comprehensible than 8½, Rio, Acme etc.
I still wonder if it might be possible to merge Plan 9 (and derivatives) and Inferno. Give the choice of C compiled to a native binary, or Limbo compiled to Dis.
- anthk 4y agoYou can set a proper Icewm/Win95 type panel+wm in a week with very little coding. There's a classical file manager: https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/images/filemng.png https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/images/filemng.png With "bar" for 9front, and "winwatch", you just have to write some title bar in order to manage the windows with ease.