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Plan 9 is still alive and kicking -- The next Plan 9 conference will be in Victoria, BC in Canada later this year.

https://iwp9.org/

9front averages several commits a day:

https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/HEAD/log.html

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I’ve been on/off playing with 9front on an old laptop. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it, it’s fun to write code for, but i have had a hard time using it as anything but a toy.

I would love to use it as my main desktop, but ultimately (and kind of unsurprisingly), the blocker is the lack of a modern browser and a lack of video acceleration.

I’m sure I could hobble something together with virtualization for the former but I don’t see a fix for video acceleration coming.

Maybe I could install it on a server or something.

I did the same with an old Thinkpad but somehow found it relies too heavily on the mouse. I might still go back to it because I love how far they've taken the "everything is a file" idea and would like to experiment more with that.

I saw on HN in a different Plan 9 thread (though I'm having a bit of trouble finding it), where someone mentioned the idea of using Plan 9 to build a custom router.

I have a very rough mental model of how that could be done, and I think it would be cool to say I have that, but I haven't been bothered to replace my beloved NixOS router yet.

Same here. I made a custom router (debian, nftables, dnsmasq, etc and python code to manage it all over ssh) and I spent way too much time on it to replace it :-)

Here you go: https://www.posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/04/0/

As an aside, it's fun to see someone on the organizing committee affiliated with Cray, Inc.

https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/b18221b10c83d81a9eb...

> Theo is more specific than troll; it presents insults from OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt.

check fortune(1) command.

That makes a lot more sense, especially as someone who has been on the receiving end of Theo on the OpenBSD mailing list.

It's a kind of mark of distinction, like Rodney Rude fans being personally insulted by him.

I wonder if there's various grades? Does a personal insult in private email rate higher than a general one on a mailing list?

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