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''' | '''9front''' is a fork of [[Plan 9|Plan 9 from Bell Labs]] by the People's Front of [http://cat-v.org Cat -V]. It was started in 2011 to continue development of Plan 9 even though <del>the front fell off</del> resources and support within Bell Labs were and are rapidly shrinking. It is a next generation mushroom cloud computing platform for the 20th century. | ||
Their Code of Conduct page is different on each | Their Code of Conduct page is different on each HTTP request, all different and making obscure reference to multiple things, such as The Necronomicon, Mayan literature, ''The Epic of Gilgamesh'', The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Rules of American Congressional Meetings, The Three Laws of Robotics from the movie [[Movies|iRobot]], [[Licenses|The MIT and three-clause BSD Licenses]], a variety of sacred oaths, and many other things. | ||
Within | Within the /sys/doc folder, 9front contains plain text copies of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'', the Constitution of the United States, and many other highly important documents that have immense historical importance and so deserve a place in the official documentation of the operating system. | ||
9front also provides these features over Plan 9 from Bell Labs: | |||
* Support for more hardware | |||
* WLAN (Wi-Fi) capability | |||
* Real mode emulation | |||
* AMD64 kernel | |||
* Encoders and decoders for various audio formats | |||
* The Mothra web browser with anti-aliased fonts | |||
* A new bootloader and init script system | |||
* Audio support | |||
* Full disk encryption | |||
* Unicode support in <tt>vt</tt> | |||
* <tt>rc-httpd</tt> | |||
* Nintendo and Sega emulators | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[http://www.9front.org | *[http://www.9front.org] | ||
Revision as of 21:22, 19 December 2015
This dongle is a 9front is a fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs by the People's Front of Cat -V. It was started in 2011 to continue development of Plan 9 even though the front fell off resources and support within Bell Labs were and are rapidly shrinking. It is a next generation mushroom cloud computing platform for the 20th century.
Their Code of Conduct page is different on each HTTP request, all different and making obscure reference to multiple things, such as The Necronomicon, Mayan literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Rules of American Congressional Meetings, The Three Laws of Robotics from the movie iRobot, The MIT and three-clause BSD Licenses, a variety of sacred oaths, and many other things.
Within the /sys/doc folder, 9front contains plain text copies of The Manifesto of the Communist Party, the Constitution of the United States, and many other highly important documents that have immense historical importance and so deserve a place in the official documentation of the operating system.
9front also provides these features over Plan 9 from Bell Labs:
- Support for more hardware
- WLAN (Wi-Fi) capability
- Real mode emulation
- AMD64 kernel
- Encoders and decoders for various audio formats
- The Mothra web browser with anti-aliased fonts
- A new bootloader and init script system
- Audio support
- Full disk encryption
- Unicode support in vt
- rc-httpd
- Nintendo and Sega emulators