ref: 6d9675cfaa819d086325fa26a8d86fc29226e78f
parent: d63c6df199469df68d20314c3934445a680df8d0
author: sl <sl@9front>
date: Sun Apr 27 18:09:09 EDT 2025
fqa0.ms: update list of forks (thanks, khm)
--- a/fqa0.ms
+++ b/fqa0.ms
@@ -194,12 +194,12 @@
.ihtml a <a href="http://www.9legacy.org">
9legacy
.ihtml a
-\(em David du Colombier's cherry picked collection of patches from various people/forks to Bell Labs Plan 9. (It is not a fork.)
+\(em David du Colombier's collection of patches to Bell Labs Plan 9. (It is not a fork, but is treated as the continuation of Labs Plan 9 by people mad about 9front.)
.ihtml a <a href="http://www.9atom.org">
9atom
.ihtml a
-\(em Erik Quanstrom's fork of Plan 9, maintained to Erik's needs and occasionally pilfered by 9front.
+\(em Erik Quanstrom's fork of Plan 9, previously maintained to Erik's needs and occasionally pilfered by 9front. Destiny unclear.
.ihtml a <a href="http://9front.org">
9front
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
.ihtml a <a href="http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html">
NIX
.ihtml a
-\(em High performance cloud computing is NIX \(em imploded in a cloud of political acrimony and retarded bureaucratic infighting.
+\(em High performance cloud computing is NIX \(em imploded in the past, but survived and adapted to 9front.
.ihtml a <a href="http://nxm.coreboot.org/NxM">
NxM
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
.ihtml a <a href="http://lsub.org/ls/research.html">
Clive
.ihtml a
-\(em A new operating system from Francisco J. Ballesteros, designed to generate grantwriting practice material and research projects for otherwise indolent students.
+\(em A new operating system from Francisco J. Ballesteros, declared inert in 2022.
.ihtml a <a href="http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/news.php">
Akaros
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
.ihtml a <a href="http://harvey-os.org/">
Harvey
.ihtml a
-\(em Harvey is an effort to get the Plan 9 code working with gcc and clang.
+\(em Harvey is an effort to get the Plan 9 code working with gcc and clang. Flatlined in 2023, succeeded by r9.
.ihtml a <a href="http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html">
Inferno
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
.ihtml a <a href="http://www.vitanuova.com/">
Vita Nuova Holdings
.ihtml a
-as free software. Just kidding it is not developed or maintained.
+as free software. Just kidding! It is not developed or maintained.
.ihtml a <a href="http://9gridchan.info">
ANTS
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@
Jehanne
.ihtml a
\(em Jehanne:Harvey::William King Harvey:J. Edgar Hoover
+
+.ihtml a <a href="https://github.com/r9os/r9">
+r9
+.ihtml a
+\(em A project based on the idea that Plan 9 needs a ground-up rewrite in a language that can't be compiled on Plan 9. Everyone expects big things.
.ihtml a <a href="http://9pf.org">
Plan 9 Foundation
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