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{{Infobox OS
|name                   = 9front
|logo                   = [[File:9front logo.svg|100px|Logo of Plan 9 from People's Front of Cat-v.org]]
|screenshot             = 
|caption                = 
|developer              = 
|source model           = [[Free and open source software]]
|supported platforms    = [[x86 architecture|x86]] / [[Vx32]], [[ARM architecture|ARM]] {{citation needed|date=March 2013}}
|kernel type            = [[monolithic kernel|Monolithic]]
|ui                     = [[rio (windowing system)|rio]] / [[rc]]
|family                 =
|released               = {{start date and age|2011|6|17}}<ref name="nt-init" />
|marketing target       =
|programmed in          = Dialect of [[ANSI C]]
|prog language          =
|language               = English
|updatemodel            = [[Mercurial]]
|working state          = Current
|license                = [[Lucent Public License]]
|website                = {{URL|http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/}}
}}

'''9front''' is a [[fork (software development)|fork]] of the [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs]] [[operating system]]. The project was started to remedy a perceived lack of devoted development resources inside [[Bell Labs]], and to integrate many changes that were made to Plan 9 independently.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} andIt has accumulated various fixes and improvements, including greatly expanded hardware support.

== Description ==
{{main|Plan 9 from Bell Labs}}
9front retains features of Plan 9 from Bell Labs and continues to integrate changes from the original source tree while adding new drivers, features and bugfixes.<ref name="features" /> As with stock Plan 9, 9front is a [[free software]] [[distributed operating system]] that achieves resource generalization by using the [[9P]] protocol to present a consistent interface for accessing local and remote resources as files. It also features priv(contracted; show full)*[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/9vx 9vx on ArchWiki]

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[[Category:Embedded operating systems]]
[[Category:Plan 9 from Bell Labs]]
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