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Plan 9 in general.
by shrizza 3y ago
Plan 9 in general.
- aredirect 3y agoI keep hearing about it and its influence, but I can't really figure out if it's active or dead or even If I can use it on a virtual machine or so. 9p.io doesn't seem to even load on my machine
- andsoitis 3y agoSince 2000 Plan9 has been open source. Official website: https://p9f.org/ https://p9f.org/ You can also try out a derivative like Inferno: https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
- veqq 3y agoAn update was released just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485309 N.b. practically plan9 has become 9front.
- beeburrt 3y ago9front was just on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485309
- viccis 3y agoThere's a whole category of utopian developer environments and languages with far bigger aspirations than they were able to achieve but that still influenced others. Smalltalk being another example. One of my favorite things about the old C2 Wards Wiki is that it's like an archaeological site where time is frozen in this period and you can browse through preserved arguments about how Smalltalk and Extreme Programming will take over the world.
- jdougan 3y agoAnd they did, in the usual half-a**ed, broken, honoured-more-in-the-breach-than-the-observance way such ideas usually get mass adopted.