This site really needs an easy to find about page... The index page is just an abstract photo, and it's awfully hard to find out what they're trying to do, or what this even is. Honestly I got...
This site really needs an easy to find about page... The index page is just an abstract photo, and it's awfully hard to find out what they're trying to do, or what this even is. Honestly I got more information on the wikipedia page for plan 9 than from browsing the site for 30 seconds.
9FRONT is a maintained fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a Unix-like operating system built as a research successor to Unix by the same group. A lot of really good design concepts from Plan 9 made...
9FRONT is a maintained fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a Unix-like operating system built as a research successor to Unix by the same group. A lot of really good design concepts from Plan 9 made their way into Linux eventually - like Unicode, controlling hardware through the filesystem, a bunch of coreutils, and some other stuff. The source code was also recently put under a permissive license.
But that's mostly irrelevant. I posted this because I find 9FRONT's 1940's America-style propaganda posters cool.
A nitpick, if I can. Unicode was not created for Plan 9; UTF-8 was. Unicode is the standard that simply assigns numbers and properties to “characters”. Those numbers can be encoded in different...
A nitpick, if I can. Unicode was not created for Plan 9; UTF-8 was. Unicode is the standard that simply assigns numbers and properties to “characters”. Those numbers can be encoded in different ways, and UTF-8, the most widely used encoding today, has been invented by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike around 1992 for Plan 9.
This site really needs an easy to find about page... The index page is just an abstract photo, and it's awfully hard to find out what they're trying to do, or what this even is. Honestly I got more information on the wikipedia page for plan 9 than from browsing the site for 30 seconds.
Sorry about that, I've posted a top-level clarification comment.
9FRONT is a maintained fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a Unix-like operating system built as a research successor to Unix by the same group. A lot of really good design concepts from Plan 9 made their way into Linux eventually - like Unicode, controlling hardware through the filesystem, a bunch of coreutils, and some other stuff. The source code was also recently put under a permissive license.
But that's mostly irrelevant. I posted this because I find 9FRONT's 1940's America-style propaganda posters cool.
A nitpick, if I can. Unicode was not created for Plan 9; UTF-8 was. Unicode is the standard that simply assigns numbers and properties to “characters”. Those numbers can be encoded in different ways, and UTF-8, the most widely used encoding today, has been invented by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike around 1992 for Plan 9.