2mo ago

This Alternative Operating System Is Keeping Retro Computing Alive

www.howtogeek.com

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Not going to admonish the devs for doing what they like in their own time. There are a lot of hobby OS out there and they are fun to tinker around with for a few minutes.
And this is likely my own personal nitpick. But honestly rather than starting something new I would really like to see someone adopt and modernize something like Plan 9 or Inferno. A few years ago there was a group trying to do a more modern user-centered version of plan 9. Complete with a lot of the more modern apps that users would want to use on such a system. I think once they saw the actual scope that the project would require, it kind of silently sputtered out to the best of my knowledge. Those operating systems were so ahead of their time. Linux is only just now catching up in some ways.
LOL though I'm sure I will still download the image and pop it open in vert manager for a few minutes later today
- 9front? I thought that was still pretty active with new releases steadily coming out.
  
  Nah, the front fell off. Yes they are still kicking. But they are more just maintaining plan 9 largely as it existed.
  I think it was harvey? They planned to do things a little more sacrilegious. Offering desktop environments other than Rio out of the box. Bringing over compiles for Firefox Etc. And providing a simple easy to use installer like many Linux distributions these days. Sort of like the Ubuntu of Plan 9.
- I feel the same way about Linux distros.
  There's something like 500+ actively updated distros. 39% (according to some random article from 2020) are used by less than 0.1% of users.
  Y'all... Spend that time and energy other open source projects that need the help!
- I would really like to see someone adopt and modernize something like Plan 9 or Inferno.
  9front exists.
  edit: Next time, I should probably read before writing.
  
  https://lemmy.world/comment/17401323

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