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aredirect on Dec 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you w...

I keep hearing about it and its influence, but I can't really figure out if it's active or dead or even If I can use it on a virtual machine or so. 9p.io doesn't seem to even load on my machine

andsoitis on Dec 2, 2023 | [–]

Since 2000 Plan9 has been open source. Official website: https://p9f.org/

You can also try out a derivative like Inferno: https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

veqq on Dec 2, 2023 | [–]

An update was released just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485309 N.b. practically plan9 has become 9front.

beeburrt on Dec 3, 2023 | [–]

9front was just on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485309

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