The most "research" thing I'm aware of 9front (since you're speaking in present tense) doing is that GEFS needed to work out a lot of things for itself that weren't in the Bε-tree proof-of-concept FS that came before.

I dunno how "close to the metal" you'd consider that.

("GEFS" being a disk filesystem that's been discussed on HN.)

9P is a protocol, FUSE isn't.

"Plan 9 praisers who don't actually use Plan 9" have a tendentious way of speaking, that's actually a lot like "AI slop", that Plan 9 users can instantly recognise. Telltale signs include speaking about Plan 9 in the past tense, and a belief that with Plan 9 you can somehow just strap all your computers together to get more performance or something. Because "you have 9P".

Dozer might be the most likely path to that.

https://notgull.net/announcing-dozer

Plan 9 does that, e.g. dial(2) to do the /net dance. ("2" here actually means something like "3plan9".)

Why?

Is it written in C? If it is and you open-sourced it, someone might port it to Plan 9.

What I meant by this is, if we had a decent X on Plan 9, we would actually use it, because right now remoting into other systems is just VNC...

What do you mean "hold-over"? In NI we still say "first year" through "fifth year". Is that not done in Britain?

Typically no. In secondary school its just said as "Year 7", "Year 8" etc to 11, then Sixth Form.

I'm also from NI, our school officially used year 8 to year 14, but everyone knew both ways around and just switched between them.

Edit: I should clarify I'm currently in uni so this was fairly recent.

> monitors have grown

Most people use laptops. (Or it's at least 50/50.)

Scwm had animations, which went in sometime before the ~2001 Usenix paper, due to a need for them. I don't think there's anything out of place about needful animations.

It's called dynamic window management, it's very popular, and that's without the animations showing you that something got moved.