9front and here, the plan 9 distro, has released a new version.
The changelog lists some 50 or so bug fixes.
The project was started to remedy a perceived lack of devoted development resources inside Bell Labs.
New users frequently want to know whether 9front is superior to some other free UNIX-like operating system. That question is largely unanswerable and is the subject of countless (and useless) religious debates. Do not, under any circumstances, ask such a question on IRC or on a 9front mailing list.
Whether 9front is right for you is a question that only you can answer. 9front FAQ
Gentlemen, start your torrents!
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(Score: 1) by novak on Saturday November 08 2014, @12:29AM
I have enjoyed plan9. Hard for me to get enough software running to use it as any form of everyday machine, but the simplicity it illustrates reminds me of what got me into *nix in the first place.
novak
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @01:47AM
DMCA takedown of 9front.org in 9...8...7...6...5...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @07:47AM
Says the obvious windows user. Anyone who frequently downloads linux distros is aware that torrents are actually about the best way to do so. HTTP/FTP may be faster but not right after release unless the site in questions has massive bandwidth and/or produces an unpopular product. Usually shortly after release the smaller distros are spread by way of torrent because they can't afford site bandwidth.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @09:48AM
Says the sanctimonious prick. Hey clueless Linux dweeb, nobody wants to download bits-and-shits of some Linsuck distro from your fucking wireless dorm room connection. They have these things called mirror sites these days, maybe you've heard?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @10:20AM
But, I do!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @10:39AM
Hope you like nigger seed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @02:22AM
So is 9front better than other Linux versions?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @03:02AM
0. It's not GNU/Linux.
1. It's a conceptual successor to all Unices and Unix-likes.
2. Yes it's conceptually superior, but it's not quite currently superior in many domain applications due to lack of developers.
3. RTF links.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @03:43AM
Naw, man. You got it all wrong. Everything is Linux.
FreeBSD is Linux. Mac OS X is Linux. Plan 9 is Linux. Haiku is Linux. ReactOS is Linux. Minix is Linux.
Everything except Windows, is Linux. And if it's Linux that means it's free, dude!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @02:43PM
3. RTF links.
The OP AC might have been teasing. With that said, once 9**9 has a decent implementation of VI and can run wine so we can have IE6, what'll be left for Linux?
(Just askin'....)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @04:07PM
Plan9 is more unix than unix. Meaning it's more in line with what the unix inventors thought unix should be rather than what Berkeley, FSF, and corporate interests (including AT&T) thought unix should be.
One example: everything is a file. Everything. Your text editor buffer? There's a /dev/ entry for that. Of course, linux recently added a syscall for random numbers. Because using /dev/random can fail. (Or worse if it was misconfigured as /dev/zero).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @10:54AM
Does anybody know if Plan 9 comes with non-free blobs?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @11:56AM
As a snobby Linux bigot, I only care about Linux, because I can impress other Linux bigots with my snobbery.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday November 08 2014, @06:30PM
Well, actually perhaps I just mean needs a better attitude. I read the FAQ and the lack of responsiveness was quite off-putting. They did get a lot of the questions right, but they didn't either attempt to answer them, or say where one should look for an answer. E.g. "Is this suitable for a desktop system?" was correctly stated, but the answer "You're the only one who can say." without context of what the constraints are, or, e.g., what window managers are available, or where to look for such information, means to me that these aren't people I want to deal with. YMMV.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @07:09PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSh0VAVYn4 [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @07:13PM
And surpass Linux, is port systemd to plan9 and see how it skyrockets.