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    9front releases new version of Plan 9 OS fork: The Golden Age of Ballooning
    [08:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | New version of Plan 9 fork 9front released The Register [08:44] schestowitz
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    9front is a fork and continuation of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, which is what the minds behind UNIX and the C programming language went on to do next. It is also rather strange.

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    The Golden Age of Ballooning is the rather inscrutable name of the latest release from the 9front project. 9front is one of several projects that continues work on the Plan 9 operating system, which was relicensed under the GPL in 2014. Plan 9, or more formally (and nowadays somewhat inaccurately, since it was spun off from Bell Labs last year) Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research operating system.

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