PieFedOpenBSD 7.7 released with updated hardware support, 9Front ships second update of 2025
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www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/openbsd_77_is_out/
Its a couple weeks old but still relevant to tech. Cover made by https://merveilles.town/users/prahou (@prahou@merveilles.town)
AKA @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org
Glad they mentioned him in the article, I love his stuff
Why am I suddenly seeing a surge of that style of art relating to BSD?
He posts a lot of his art on Lemmy.
I'm sure, but how did the BSD community decided to adopt them?
I dunno, but I would think BSD shares a lot of the same ethos.
How funny, I only recently learned of 9Front after trying to find out if there's still a fork going of the original UNIX OS from Bell Labs (which is exactly what 9Front is... I think.)
Anyway, nice article. Thanks for posting.
Plan 9 is inspired by UNIX (Helps that it had the same devs), but it's not a direct continuation.
UnixWare is I think the only direct continuation of the original AT&T UNIX. The various BSDs are close enough but were re-written entirely in the late 80s/early 90s so there's nothing original remaining.
BSDs are "Unix of Theseus", so they are the closest.
Solaris is a direct continuation that didn't have a rewrite of anything after any litigation.
Yay a new 9front.
But I'd like to see a Linux compat layer, which should be possible between syscall intercepts and a glibc build.
Source first, of course, but then maybe binary, sockets are easy to wrap, the rest should be even easier.
Running a Linux chroot under plan9 like I run lxc containers or BSD Jails now would be awesome.