9front

“This creates a zero dependency environment as well as shakes out bugs and shortcomings in foundational software”

“You can use aan(8) on 9front which runs on each side of the connection and holds it open if the network breaks, then resume on reconnect.”

“IMO 9front is an exposé of what an OS can look like when it's written for and by hackers with a focus on simplicity.”

“one of the vastly underestimated aspects of Plan 9/9front is its simplified C”

“This is what Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson did to fix the faults in the Unix design.”

“the existence of 9front will be one of the three things keeping us from destruction”

“Will keep seeding the 9front torrent for as long as the internet is running”

“it takes 5 minutes to setup. Plus it's all built in so you don't need to install anything”

“9front as always is to be strictly forbidden without a security clearance”

“Namespaces in 9front (actual ones, not second hand ones like under Linux) makes isolating software trivial.”

“9front just went further throwing down all the legacy crap to the dust bin”

“Would rather seed 9front torrents at this point than use Windows 11”

“a good bunch offline software repos from shithub can fit under a 4GB pendrive or DVD”

“9front is nice, but I'm not sure how much you'd get out of it without implementing the rest of Plan 9”

“9front it's my 'brain detox' machine, it's not Unix, it's even simpler than Unix.”

“But I prefer 9front's transparency, you don't need to get everything from the host to use it”

“9front might not totally free, but it's a step in case GNU+Linux gets utterly broken.”

“With 9front and namespaces/separate servers you get a similar environment but even more modular.”

“Most Unix diehard hackers will be at 9front today because of the ease of thinkering, simplicity”

“it was basically made to be modular from day one and you can just set a CPU server and connect anything into it over 9p”

“9front went further; you don't need to care about TTY's and PTY's any more”

“can do tons of stuff Perl does but without calling tons of CPAN modules”

“total orthogonality. You can spawn remote windows as if they were local.”

“You can freely resize the 9front's rio window manager's windows running rc”

“You can totally put shells under graphical windows as in 9front”

“You can resize windows with shells under 9front freely, no more SIGWINCH.”

“9front's manuals will teach you the basics, the actual basics of CS”

“9front is a legitimately cool software project and from what I can tell a cool set of people”

“the lack of a modern browser and video acceleration is a pretty hard blocker”

“I find 9front to be a really nice incubator for playing around with new ideas.”

“9front, if nothing else, is fun to play with. I just don't necessarily consider it the most optimal or most performant design.”

“the blocker is the lack of a modern browser and a lack of video acceleration”

“I still run old 32 bit systems because they work and I have them.”

“Thankfully they are also tinkering with 9front which has little to no issues with portability and still supports 32 bit.”

“they are also tinkering with 9front which has little to no issues with portability and still supports 32 bit”

“9front which has little to no issues with portability and still supports 32 bit”

“has little to no issues with portability and still supports 32 bit”

“9p is as close to platonic ideal of Unix I/O turned into RPC as possible”

“I just measured and built the latest 9front AMD64 kernel in 15.4 seconds using a Celeron J1900 with a SATA SSD.”

“A minimal RTF editor with simple options plus a simple spreadsheet with rc/awk support does things much faster.”