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'''9Front''' is a fork of [[Plan 9]]. They have been described as 25% developing an OS and 75% making fun of everyone else. Their website is designed to be as edgy as possible and looks like a schizophrenic made it. Multiple satire web pages exist within the main site, mocking [[4chan]], [[Time Cube]], [[Temple OS]], and others.  
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'''9front''' is a fork of [[Plan 9|Plan 9 from Bell Labs]] by the People's Front of [http://cat-v.org Cat -V]. It was started in 2011 to continue development of Plan 9 even though <del>the front fell off</del> resources and support within Bell Labs were and are rapidly shrinking. It is a next generation mushroom cloud computing platform for the 20th century.  
  
Their Code of Conduct page is different on each [[HTTP Request]], all different and making obscure reference to multiple things, such as The Necronomicon, Mayan literature, ''The Epic of Gilgamesh'', The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Rules of American Congressional Meetings, The Three Laws of Robotics from the movie [[Movies|iRobot]], [[Licenses|The MIT and three-clause BSD Licenses]], a variety of sacred oaths, and many other things.
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Their Code of Conduct page is different on each HTTP request, all different and making obscure reference to multiple things, such as The Necronomicon, Mayan literature, ''The Epic of Gilgamesh'', The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Rules of American Congressional Meetings, The Three Laws of Robotics from the movie [[Movies|iRobot]], [[Licenses|The MIT and three-clause BSD Licenses]], a variety of sacred oaths, and many other things.
  
Within every /usr/docs folder, 9front contains ''The Communist Manifesto'', ''Das Kapital'', ''Mein Kampf'', The Constitution of the United States, and many other edgy documents that have no point in being there.
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Within the /sys/doc folder, 9front contains plain text copies of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'', the Constitution of the United States, and many other highly important documents that have immense historical importance and so deserve a place in the official documentation of the operating system.
 
 
The actual system is a barely modified fork of Plan 9 with more networking and hardware support, audio, some new programs, and video game emulators as a part of the base system.
 
  
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9front also provides these features over Plan 9 from Bell Labs:
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* Support for more hardware
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* WLAN (Wi-Fi) capability
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* Real mode emulation
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* AMD64 kernel
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* Encoders and decoders for various audio formats
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* The Mothra web browser with anti-aliased fonts
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* A new bootloader and init script system
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* Audio support
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* Full disk encryption
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* Unicode support in <tt>vt</tt>
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* <tt>rc-httpd</tt>
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* Nintendo and Sega emulators
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*[http://www.9front.org Official Website]
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*[http://www.9front.org]
*[http://www.9front.org/n/dump/ Spoof web pages]
 
*[http://www.9front.org/coc Code of Conduct for 9Front]
 
*[http://www.9front.org/propaganda/ 9Front Propaganda (advertising)]
 

Revision as of 23:22, 19 December 2015

9front is a fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs by the People's Front of Cat -V. It was started in 2011 to continue development of Plan 9 even though the front fell off resources and support within Bell Labs were and are rapidly shrinking. It is a next generation mushroom cloud computing platform for the 20th century.

Their Code of Conduct page is different on each HTTP request, all different and making obscure reference to multiple things, such as The Necronomicon, Mayan literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Rules of American Congressional Meetings, The Three Laws of Robotics from the movie iRobot, The MIT and three-clause BSD Licenses, a variety of sacred oaths, and many other things.

Within the /sys/doc folder, 9front contains plain text copies of The Manifesto of the Communist Party, the Constitution of the United States, and many other highly important documents that have immense historical importance and so deserve a place in the official documentation of the operating system.

9front also provides these features over Plan 9 from Bell Labs:

  • Support for more hardware
  • WLAN (Wi-Fi) capability
  • Real mode emulation
  • AMD64 kernel
  • Encoders and decoders for various audio formats
  • The Mothra web browser with anti-aliased fonts
  • A new bootloader and init script system
  • Audio support
  • Full disk encryption
  • Unicode support in vt
  • rc-httpd
  • Nintendo and Sega emulators

External links