The world’s best operating system, 9front, has released a new release called Release. 9front is a maintained fork of Plan 9. The new release Release brings atomic(2) functions for arm, arm64, mips, 386 and amd64, improved stability when the kernel runs out of memory, memdraw and devdraw now support affine warp primitive, and more.
You can download Release from the usual mirrors.
Only seven remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time! ?!
Sounds OpenBSDespue to me… I’m interested!
It’s…different. Lots of great ideas, but I have so far never been able to wrap my head around it all. I can run it, I can play around in it, once I even figured out how to create a file, but I couldn’t find it afterwards.
I’ll never be cool enough for Plan9, and that’s okay.
Eight remote holes now, coming in pretty fast 🙂
It seems it’s a random number on each page reload.
I wanted cool affine warp primitives but only got a blinking cursor 🙁
Anyone ever do a review on this? Possibly with screenshots?
There is a YouTube channel called “adventuresin9” that is worth a look if you’re interested in Plan 9 stuff.
This is probably the OS we really need for the future. If only someone could understand it. I did a mini review for an OSNews challenge some years ago. It was a little superficial. I was criticized by the Plan 9 community for my effort 🙂
@AndrewZ
To abuse the C++ creator a bit, there are only two kinds of operating system: the ones that criticize you and the ones everybody uses.
I always feel that 9Front (attempt at a better Unix) would benefit greatly from Zig programming language (prospective replacement of C – the language UNIX co-developed with).
Apparently somebody has ported Zig into Plan9, perhaps the possibility of these two successor technologies being brought together is a story that needs to be better told?