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Plan 9 is still alive and kicking -- The next Plan 9 conference will be in Victoria, BC in Canada later this year. https://iwp9.org/ https://iwp9.org/ 9front

by ori_b 9mo ago

Plan 9 is still alive and kicking -- The next Plan 9 conference will be in Victoria, BC in Canada later this year. https://iwp9.org/ https://iwp9.org/ 9front averages several commits a day: https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/HEAD/log.html https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/HEAD/log.html

__turbobrew__ 9mo ago
https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/b18221b10c83d81a9eb4d5f896ad02e3b69095f5/commit.html https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/b18221b10c83d81a9eb...
- i4k 9mo ago
  > Theo is more specific than troll; it presents insults from OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt. check fortune(1) command.
  - __turbobrew__ 9mo ago
    That makes a lot more sense, especially as someone who has been on the receiving end of Theo on the OpenBSD mailing list.
    - pseudohadamard 9mo ago
      It's a kind of mark of distinction, like Rodney Rude fans being personally insulted by him. I wonder if there's various grades? Does a personal insult in private email rate higher than a general one on a mailing list?
tombert 9mo ago
I’ve been on/off playing with 9front on an old laptop. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it, it’s fun to write code for, but i have had a hard time using it as anything but a toy. I would love to use it as my main desktop, but ultimately (and kind of unsurprisingly), the blocker is the lack of a modern browser and a lack of video acceleration. I’m sure I could hobble something together with virtualization for the former but I don’t see a fix for video acceleration coming. Maybe I could install it on a server or something.
- wkjagt 9mo ago
  I did the same with an old Thinkpad but somehow found it relies too heavily on the mouse. I might still go back to it because I love how far they've taken the "everything is a file" idea and would like to experiment more with that.
  - tombert 9mo ago
    I saw on HN in a different Plan 9 thread (though I'm having a bit of trouble finding it), where someone mentioned the idea of using Plan 9 to build a custom router. I have a very rough mental model of how that could be done, and I think it would be cool to say I have that, but I haven't been bothered to replace my beloved NixOS router yet.
    - wkjagt 9mo ago
      Same here. I made a custom router (debian, nftables, dnsmasq, etc and python code to manage it all over ssh) and I spent way too much time on it to replace it :-)
    - MisterTea 9mo ago
      Here you go: https://www.posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/04/0/ https://www.posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/04/0/
  - deleted 9mo ago
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nxobject 9mo ago
As an aside, it's fun to see someone on the organizing committee affiliated with Cray, Inc.

by ori_b 9mo ago

__turbobrew__ 9mo ago

https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/b18221b10c83d81a9eb4d5f896ad02e3b69095f5/commit.html https://git.9front.org/plan9front/9front/b18221b10c83d81a9eb...

i4k 9mo ago
> Theo is more specific than troll; it presents insults from OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt. check fortune(1) command.
- __turbobrew__ 9mo ago
  That makes a lot more sense, especially as someone who has been on the receiving end of Theo on the OpenBSD mailing list.
  - pseudohadamard 9mo ago
    It's a kind of mark of distinction, like Rodney Rude fans being personally insulted by him. I wonder if there's various grades? Does a personal insult in private email rate higher than a general one on a mailing list?

tombert 9mo ago

I’ve been on/off playing with 9front on an old laptop. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it, it’s fun to write code for, but i have had a hard time using it as anything but a toy. I would love to use it as my main desktop, but ultimately (and kind of unsurprisingly), the blocker is the lack of a modern browser and a lack of video acceleration. I’m sure I could hobble something together with virtualization for the former but I don’t see a fix for video acceleration coming. Maybe I could install it on a server or something.

wkjagt 9mo ago
I did the same with an old Thinkpad but somehow found it relies too heavily on the mouse. I might still go back to it because I love how far they've taken the "everything is a file" idea and would like to experiment more with that.
- tombert 9mo ago
  I saw on HN in a different Plan 9 thread (though I'm having a bit of trouble finding it), where someone mentioned the idea of using Plan 9 to build a custom router. I have a very rough mental model of how that could be done, and I think it would be cool to say I have that, but I haven't been bothered to replace my beloved NixOS router yet.
  - wkjagt 9mo ago
    Same here. I made a custom router (debian, nftables, dnsmasq, etc and python code to manage it all over ssh) and I spent way too much time on it to replace it :-)
  - MisterTea 9mo ago
    Here you go: https://www.posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/04/0/ https://www.posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/04/0/
- deleted 9mo ago
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nxobject 9mo ago

As an aside, it's fun to see someone on the organizing committee affiliated with Cray, Inc.