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Comment by ori_b

9 hours ago

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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tombert  7 hours ago

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.

  • wkjagt  4 hours ago

    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.