alt Hacker News9front is the community fork of the OS that the creators of UNIX and C did next.
This is what Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson did to fix the faults in the Unix design.
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and all the other FOSS Unix-like OSes are community recreations of the flawed AT&T Unix.
9front is the continuation of the OS that came next.
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All true, but I can't help pointing out that the code name for this new OS came from Plan Nine from Outer Space, a film (which I gather the gang went to watch and found hilarious, although it appears that the film was mainly shown on TV by the 1980s) by Ed Wood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space
A theme in the film is the waking of the undead, and I'm wondering if this is a message from the original gang.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/PlanNine...
Plan 9 is mostly Rob Pikes idea and did not involve Ritchie heavily. https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9
Recently, Pike commented that he designed Plan 9 so he could build the windowing system he wanted. (edit: oops, link) https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4fec171fec7e3845-M2...