9front "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" Released
44 points by pmjv
44 points by pmjv
It's impressive how vibrant of a community 9front has. I remember looking into Plan 9 when I was a Unix maximalist - even used plan9port as my userland for a while - but it seemed dead at the time.
every distribution should be packaging songs with their releases
most of the releases have (very good) electronic music by contributors. "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" has this ?gem?: https://9front.org/mp3/hgc.i.feel.like.rob.pike.flac
OpenBSD also produced songs for each release for a very long time. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
This pleases me, because 9front is my "plan b" if FreeBSD ever takes a turn for the worse (or just changes sufficiently that I don't find myself at home there).
My computer has been on the fritz lately, maybe I should just go ahead and run 9front on it for a little while instead of proceeding directly to reinstall linux.
it is definitely worth an exploration, maybe connect with the folks from sdf.org to get some guidance as they offer plan9 bootcamps and stuff :3
i'm particularly fond of rodri's refined affine transformation api. graphics programs in plan 9 are composed of a fairly small set of compositing operations, and anything complicated you have to do by uploading bitmaps to the graphics driver. this can be really slow over the network. with the addition of affinewarp() you can perform any affine transformation (most usefully scaling) by sending a short command to the driver. you can kinda play doom in fullscreen over the network now :)
Are the posters available in a resolution that would actually look good printed? Like around A4