Plan 9 is still actively developed in the form of 9front; updates and new features are ported to 9legacy from there.
The “original” Plan 9—meaning stock 4th Edition—is more of a museum piece at this point, yes.
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I can say that, at least in the Southwestern US, our local Kroger stores all use Linux of some variety at their self-checkouts. I’ve seen the same as above: mostly CentOS and Rocky.
Sure, basically any Debian-based distro should have
gdebiin its repos.
2·22 days agoIt used to be that everyone in the Boot Camp got their own VM that was wiped each season, but recently everything was migrated to a single system that doesn’t reset and everyone uses.
In short: now you get a permanent account.
Python 2.5.1 was distributed as part of 9front back when it used
hg, but it was ultimately removed from the base system once we switched over togit9. 9legacy still packages binaries, however; they’re up to 2.7.6 for Python and 2.9.2 for Mercurial.I never bother with venti/fossil, honestly. I’m more of a
cwfskind of person, but Ori’sgefshas been attracting my attention lately.
If you ever want to just poke around a Plan 9 system, SDF Public Access UNIX System offers an ongoing Plan 9 Boot Camp.
Stop by and join us in
comsometime!
Additionally, for those that may want a Plan 9 that’s being actively developed and will actually work on modern hardware:
There’s also 9legacy, which is basically “classic” Plan 9 with some patches from 9front.
I use it because it’s truly a “complete system” in a way that Linux and even the BSDs are not—every program is an example in itself and it comes with a ton of various scratch-built utilities that you don’t usually find as part of a typical Linux distro. Stuff like a basic torrent or IRC client just sort of fall out of the way Plan 9 is organized and implemented.
It also provides me with a distraction-free environment and a set of tools that I enjoy using, even if some aspects of Plan 9 as, say, a laptop daily driver are inconvenient or awkward. It really is better suited for networked computing.
I was pretty much sold from first contact because Plan 9 is the way that I feel best matches what I’ve always wanted from my machines: a simple grid of networked appliances where I can route the various resources and hardware in whatever way I require.
In
#cat-v? Not regularly. I mostly hang out in gridchat with a handful of the 9front people.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Closest thing for
bashwould beble.sh.
It sounds like Gentoo is literally exactly what you want.
I am currently not using gentoo, and because the packages in its default repos are only updated when necessary, and the break-my-gentoo repo is more of a joke than an actual replacement for arch.
I’m sorry, but I am genuinely confused here.
Gentoo can be both stable and bleeding edge and allows you to mix and match on a per-package basis.
Does setting
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"globally not make things bleeding edge enough for you? Grab*-9999packages instead.
That “something” is called a USB thumb drive.
They’re pretty cheap these days.