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What is it? Can someone provide any context about that?

Even the main page of the 9front website just provide an image but no context...

A continuation of Plan9, Bell's experimental unix-successor that never really took off.

> NIX — High performance cloud computing is NIX — imploded in a cloud of political acrimony and retarded bureaucratic infighting

Not the same as Nix, the declarative package manager and linux distro, but an amusing coincidence.