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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: 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).