cross-posted from: https://eviltoast.org/post/14810489
9front is Plan 9, the last version of UNIX, escaped into the wild. It spawned off bastard children that have no respect for anything, and most definitely not their elders. ... Except trans rights. 9front are quite clear that they respect trans rights. And they don't like nazis. ... But that doesn't seem to have much to do with the OS. They just have a lot to say in addition to and around the OS. And stuff.
9front is inscrutable, odd, and completely unlike anything you've used. In order to get anything at all done, you have to draw a window to do it in using mouse "chords" of multiple button presses. That being the case, you pretty much have to RTFM. There is no guessing here.
And boy is it an interesting process reading this website. I'd like to highlight some choice bits, but the site just went down. That seems to happen on occasion, but when its up you can read the history of the project and the various versions at play. There are true believers and heretics. (May they burn in their Inferno!) These 9front guys are the fuk-it-all-and-fork-the-code crew. As near as I can tell, for the pure pleasure of advancing operating system technology, they've been developing this thing in a closet for decades, unasked, unnoticed, unknown.
9FRONT - CLAUSE 15 COMMON ELEMENTS OF MAUS AND STAR TYPE
https://9front.org/releases/2025/04/26/0/...
A word about the Dash1 manual. I found this to be the most entertaining piece of technical documentation I've read since I first installed Slackware 30 years ago. They tell you to fuk off and go away at the beginning, middle, and end. The message is direct and repeated loudly. 9front is useless, will not do you any good, nobody will help you, and no-one will care. Oh, and here's a handy set of steps to get it running. And an iso image. Sorta like a linux distro. Except its not linux, not a distro, and fuk off again.
Ya, I've not done it justice here. I laughed out loud, long, and scared my dear departed cat. If you're nerd enough, the Dash1 is wildly funny.
Dash1 - 9FRONT FREQUENTLY QUESTIONED ANSWERS
https://fqa.9front.org/dash1.clause15.pdf...
The site came back up. This is from their Propaganda page, unedited.
Yes. They copied their manifesto from wikipedia. I don't even think its all that accurate. But its absolutely plagiarized."Manifesto
9front[58] is a fork of Plan 9. It was started to remedy a perceived lack of devoted development resources inside Bell Labs, and has accumulated various fixes and improvements.copied from wikipedia"
