Few things in life make me happier than a new 9front release. This new release, 9front “CLAUSE 15 COMMON ELEMENTS OF MAUS AND STAR TYPE”, comes with a variety of fixes and new features, such as temperature sensor support for Ryzen processors, a new Intel i225 2.5 GbE driver, a number of low-level kernel improvements, and so, so many more small fixes and changes.
If you use 9front, you already know all of this, and you’re too cool to read OSNews anyway. If you’re new to 9front and want to join the cool people club, you can download images for PC, Raspberry Pi, MNT Reform, and QEMU.
Ok, I give up… what exactly is this again?
What, the article did not introduce the topic effectively? Here on OSNews? surely not!
Ok, I eventually figured it out. Plan9front (or 9front) is a fork of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. The project was started to remedy a perceived lack of devoted development resources inside Bell Labs, and has accumulated various fixes and improvements. This FQA (not a typo) specifically covers only the most recent release of 9front.
Since Plan 9 from Bell Labs got its name from a reference to the Ed Wood 1957 cult science fiction Z-movie Plan 9 from Outer Space, the 9front website leans into that more and just confused me.