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9front is a fork of Plan 9, the operating system that runs Jurassic Park[0]. Stanley Leiber is a prominent contributor, albeit whose existence is humourously-bu
by xelxebar 3mo ago
9front is a fork of Plan 9, the operating system that runs Jurassic Park[0]. Stanley Leiber is a prominent contributor, albeit whose existence is humourously-but-seriously-maybe debated. The whole community has a post-ironic humor that is very GenZ but before GenZ was cool or even born.
The Plan 9 Foundation commissions local artists for it's swag at the annual workshops. I'm guessing this article is tangentially related.
I daily drive 9front, so I might be biased.
[0]:https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1 https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1
- stavros 3mo agoAhh I see, thank you.
- mattmanser 3mo agoIs that gen z humour? As it reads more to me like it's Douglas Adams humour, i.e. 1980s humour. British, post-Python absurdist humour or whatever you'd call it.
- sznio 3mo agoas a gen z - same thing
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoYou must be joking about Jurassic Park, right? The systems in Jurassic Park are clearly and obviously running IRIX on SGI workstations, and the girl character says as much when she recognizes Unix. The file system navigator app is famous from its appearance there. Plan 9 has never been portrayed as a running system in Hollywood, because it has never run any system of consequence in real life either.
- cyber_kinetist 3mo ago... it's a joke. A perfect example of how Plan 9 humor works.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoI am unclear what the joke is here. GP appeared to be sincere because there is a still image from the film embedded in the FAQ for no reason. The “joke” is not part of the FAQ. So, what actually is the joke? Has the joke been made in public forums before today? We're unable to find prior art concerning this joke or meme. Does "plan9 humor" consist mostly of making shit up?
- DOGMATICA 3mo agothe joke is that plan 9’s not UNIX, and thus does not run Jurassic Park. the absurdity arises from the fact that using such a capable operating system for dinosaur husbandry (im told this is what jurassic park is about) would be, frankly, philistine in nature.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoSo, falsehoods are jokes now? Hey guess what? I wrote xscreensaver! Haha, funny joke, right, philistine? Hilarious! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistinism
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- q3k 3mo ago> So, falsehoods are jokes now? Yes. It says so in the AT&T SysV R4 User's Manual.
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- benj111 3mo agoIf you look at the image from the film you will note it has the cat(?) clock of plan 9 fame. So its fairly obvious that the image is doctored.
- pjmlp 3mo agoIn fact, it was quickly superseded by Inferno and Limbo, in AT&T race to compete with JavaOS, which is why Dis also got initial support to convert between bytecode formats. Overall, after the sale to Vita Nuova, one could assert Inferno has had much more real commercial use than Plan 9 has ever had outside Bell Labs. Yet Plan 9 fans seldom acknowledge it was a transition between UNIX and Inferno.