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First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

9front, the most active project continuing development of the sequel to Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, emitted a new version.

If you want to see how Unix-like OSes should have evolved, rather than reinventing bigger and shinier wheels – we're staring meaningfully at the BSDs and Linux here – then read on.

DO NOT INSTALL also has better USB audio and Wi-Fi support, which now includes on the Raspberry Pi.

This driver came to 9front from Richard Miller's port of Plan 9 to the Raspberry Pi, which you can see demonstrated by the man himself.

It's Unix, reimagined for the era of networked graphical workstations instead of standalone text-only minis with dumb terminals.

That modern FOSS Unix world remains indifferent, and in that light, we find the 9front team's rather, um, confrontational attitude entirely understandable.

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