9front
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 25, 2025first mention
Oct 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“one of the vastly underestimated aspects of Plan 9/9front is its simplified C”
“I daily drive 9front”
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“my daily OS it's a netbook with 9front and I regret nothing.”
“9front ships an IRC client made with rc, awk and aux/trampoline to connect”
Caveats and dissent
“The 9front web site is certainly.. something.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- 9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released 1 mention
- Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC? 1 mention
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All comments 21
“although illumos or 9front becoming the preferred build environment for libreboot would make my inner nerd happy”
“one of the vastly underestimated aspects of Plan 9/9front is its simplified C”
“they do have an interesting style”
“I daily drive 9front”
“9front is a rolling fork”
“LIke 9front.”
“I'm only running 9front for dhcp/dns/tftp”
“I have toyed with the linked library on 9front”
Interesting, the decompressor in Jdeflate is around 4k LoC. https://github.com/Jpn666/jdeflate
“audio/zuke in 9front”
“my daily OS it's a netbook with 9front and I regret nothing.”
>Android Drawterm, for sure. It should be under FDroid. On 9p itself, check termux. > When I use terminal emulators, SSH, and tmux, I can switch between different clients with different resolution, pixel density, and screen orientation and have the text display acceptably on each (minus text reflow for history, which is an issue) Oh, I understand. But you can set the font= environment variable before launching a tool
“9front ships an IRC client made with rc, awk and aux/trampoline to connect”
“The 9front web site is certainly.. something.”
“You can try 9front in a virtual machine safely.”
“it would be some 9front setup”
“I find 9front to be a really nice incubator for playing around with new ideas.”
https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/b18221b10c83d81a9eb4d5f896ad02e3b69095f5/commit.html
“9front averages several commits a day”
“no, I use 9Front”
“You seem to be involved with 9front.”