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

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    3 days ago

    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.