New release of Plan9 successor 9FRONT now available

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sundray@lemmus.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://9front.org/releases/2025/10/11/0/

From the Release page:

memdraw and devdraw now support affine warp primitive with demonstration programs provided in form of games/rotzoomer and see also image(1).

new atomic(2) functions provided for arm, arm64, mips, 386 and amd64.

big stabilization improvements for kernel when it runs out of memory as well as complete overhaul of the mount and image cache.

irtio10 i/o bar support for openbsd vmd.

libc got rune normalization updated to unicode v17.

libsec now has blake2 implementation.

git got a new rebase utility.

troff got ported to native plan9 from ape.

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morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Something weird is going on with the code of conduct page. When I view it through my web reading app, it appears normal, but when I view it directly, I get this

9FRONT CODE OF CONDUCT

I STAND ALONE against your mad, deadly,
worldwide conspiratorial gangster computer-god communism
with wall-to-wall deadly gangster protection
life-long sworn conspirators, murder incorporated, organized crime
the police and judges
the deadly sneak parroting puppet gangsters
Using all the gangster deadly Frankenstein controls!
These hangman-rope sneak deadly gangsters, the judges and the police
Trick, trap, rob, wreck, butcher, and murder the people
To keep them terrorized in gangster frankenstein earphone radio
slavery for the communist gangster government
And con-artist parroting puppet gangster-playboy scum-on-top!

There is no escape from this worst gangster police state, using all of
the deadly gangster Frankenstein controls!

Spray me with poison nerve gas from automobile exhausts and even
lawnmowers!
Deadly assaults, even in my yard with knives, even bricks and stones
Even deadly touch tabin or electric shock flashlights
Even remote electronically controlled around-corners-projection of
deadly touch tarantula spiders
Worldwide living death (x4)

Inside
Inside-out

Worldwide living death

Your organization was lying to us!

Worldwide, systematic instant plastic surgery butchery murder, fake
aging so all people are dead or useless by age 70!
Done at night to you as a Frankenstein slave!
Parroting puppet Gangster slave
Now even you know I am a menace to your worldwide, mad, deadly
communist gangster computer-god!
Therefore, I must go to extermination before I am exterminated by this
gangster, computer-god concocted
And controlled worst mongrel organized crime murder incorporated
gangster communist government
I hand you the secrets to save the entire human race, and the entire
universe!

Is this one of those anti Ai things? I’m not a bot, I promise

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sundray@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s the “lyrics” of a song by Venetian Snares, called “Americanized” – which, samples the rants of a (possibly insane) crackpot and conspiracy theorist, Francis E. Dec.

I presume it’s some sort of inside joke.

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dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I recommend reading their “Frequently Questioned Answers” document, aka Dash1.
fqa.9front.org/dash1.release.pdf

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I’ve read a lot of tech docs through the years. Hands down, this is my favorite.

I do not recommend installing their OS, unless you have time to kill and curiosity.
9front is completely useless. It’s a programmer’s toy; a sandbox to develop some OS build ideas.

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prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thank you for posting release release posts

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- yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hey, this isn’t the Funhole!
  
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palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That name puts me in mind of things like "Stormfront" and "National Front", if not also things like 4chan / 8kun.

..but that might be the point?? If so, I can't tell if it's a joke or serious. Disturbing.

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- dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The devs are some really strange folks. They would enjoy your discomfiture.
  
  But as the other poster said, they are really emphatically, antifa-level before antifa was cool, no-nazi.
  
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- sundray@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They are emphatically anti-nazi/anti-fash. If you check out their homepage, the footer has links to “Nazi Punks: Fuck Off” and Black Lives Matter. The favicon for the site is a LGBTQ+ pride flag.
  
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  - palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well that's good to know at least. Still not sure I would have opted for that name, but then, these are clearly the games of sharper minds than mine.
    
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mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can’t wait to figure out what to do on this release!

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- dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I install 9front releases, screw with a couple windows, and give up again. It’s a cycle.
  
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- Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  LOL - my opinion exactly
  
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