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Plan9/9front was born to avoid Unix/BSD's cruft over decades. People running 9front does it for convenience, to avoid the bloat, dinamically linked libraries/b
by anthk 3y ago
Plan9/9front was born to avoid Unix/BSD's cruft over decades.
People running 9front does it for convenience, to avoid the bloat, dinamically linked libraries/binaries and so on.
If any, 9front people run 9vx and OpenBSD on it with icewm or any sensible wm to run Firefox because of some JS web pages for gov/corpo related (and often personal) needs.
- lproven 3y agoAbsolutely. The point of Plan 9 was to eliminate the cruft of Unix. So I am not proposing adding the bulk or complexity of Linux to Plan 9. What I'm trying to suggest is something that's small and simple to implement, but brings the richness of Linux apps to the more elegant next-gen OS... without incurring a huge cost in plumbing and maintenance. The point being to try to attract some Linux users and developers over to Plan 9, by letting them bring their most essential apps with them... And then seduce them into becoming Plan 9 users and developers instead.