9front, a fork of Plan 9, blends eccentric design with a quirky community to preserve one of Unix’s strangest legacies.

9front, a fork of Plan 9, blends eccentric design with a quirky community to preserve one of Unix’s strangest legacies.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    3日前

    Intriguing article, it’s unfortunate they didn’t go into detail about how it’s different (even at a high level) beyond the intro.

    Will have to go look for more info.

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      3日前

      Are you curious? 9front is nerdy as fuk. I totally recommend giving it a whirl.
      FYI … 9front is useless. Its a programmer’s toy. An OS enthusiasts challenge.

      The site. https://9front.org/

      The holy document. The Dash1.
      This is the funniest piece of technical documentation I’ve ever read.
      http://fqa.9front.org/dash1.gefs-sp1.pdf

      How is it different? It’s GUI-native. In order to run something, you use ‘mouse chords’ to draw a terminal window, and then you can run stuff in that window. Last time I used it I started to learn acme, the editing environment, which required more mouse chords. I poked at it for a week or so and moved on.