Plan 9 is a bicycle

Someone on Reddit asked how easy it was to do "simple stuff" on 9front. This is not a Linux distribution. It is an experimental research OS. Look, all Linux distros are the same kernel with different tools slapped on top. Mostly the GNU tools and a bunch of other stuff. Linux is one operating system. Linux is a GPL implementation of a simple monolithic 1970s Unix kernel. All the BSDs are…