9front releases new version of Plan 9 fork: The Golden Age of Ballooning
FOSS desk had it running in a VM in just a few minutes. That alone is quite a departure from classic Plan 9.
9front is not for everybody. In fact, it's for hardly anybody: the FQA page has a helpful"Plan 9 is not for you", and it's right. But that is followed by"Why Plan 9?" and"What do people like about Plan 9?" and they're all worth reading. 9front is an OS for programmers and hackers who enjoy writing code more than deploying it or running other people's. Saying that, it's an important OS and points the way to future computers. While Unix was designed for a text-based standalone minicomputer, Plan 9 has networking and a GUI built in and integral parts of the OS.
Plan 9 is tiny by comparison, and most of its components are ordinary programs running in user space. Every process has its own namespace, which in turn makes the tooling around containers on traditional Unixes unnecessary.
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