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by henesy 9y ago
The grid is back up, a VPS host issue occurred and a fix is underway.
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by henesy 9y ago
The paper this thread links to is great for this. Sites of interest: * http://cat-v.org * http://9front.org * http://9legacy.org * http://9p.io We also have a Discord server I linked in anothe
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by henesy 9y ago
It also has a virtual machine system down served by vmx(1) http://man.cat-v.org/9front/1/vmx .
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by henesy 9y ago
I mean the whole idea of Harvey is that they get Plan 9 building under gcc. Whether that's a good idea or not depends on who you talk to.
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by henesy 9y ago
Seconding 9front and friends, they've really done a lot to broaden hardware support and improve the system overall.
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by henesy 9y ago
It's nice to see Plan 9 getting some love in the limelight. There's a 9fans Discord server lying around for anyone interested: https://discord.gg/6daut5T
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by henesy 9y ago
The Plan 9 solution always felt really logical imo.
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by henesy 9y ago
The Sam language and editor may be of interest: http://sam.cat-v.org http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam
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by henesy 9y ago
Good to see cat-v getting some coverage again. The archive they keep is fantastic.
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by henesy 9y ago
Tmux isn't vi/vim, though. Part of the Plan 9 perspective is realizing that the terminal emulator as we know it today is a hack and should be discounted. This is an example of it, using Tmux to try to stuff functionality that shou
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by henesy 9y ago
For the interested Plan 9 from User Space/plan9port is presently maintained at https://github.com/9fans/plan9port More acme info at http://acme.cat-v.org Acme has a cousin, sam: http://sam.c
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by henesy 10y ago
It's not too bad for practical use, Vita Nuova uses it commercially while the site is not much to look at, the guy behind it is still active. Inferno is also nice for making lightweight, networked systems and as such leans itself nicel
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by henesy 11y ago
It says that it is OpenZFS specifically.
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by henesy 11y ago
Bump for paper if it's published.
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by henesy 11y ago
I think it's less about having a terminal emulator and more about having access to the shell environment. In the case of acme no terminal emulator is used but you still retain access to the system tools you are given and typically acce
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by henesy 11y ago
Plan 9 in general reflects this ideology and concept. The entire operating uses the mouse very expressively to the point that when I develop outside of a mouse expressive UI it feels lacking. Among other things, the mouse chording used in P
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by henesy 11y ago
If you want some kind of abstraction termbox is a pretty reasonable level above straight ncurses. There's also termbox-go fwiw. https://github.com/nsf/termbox https://github.com/nsf/termbox-g
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by henesy 11y ago
In the same grain I find which and where is very useful. Additionally, find itself is a command that does its job pretty well. For less serious searches: du -a | grep -in filename # usually works
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by henesy 11y ago
Another here as well...I was excited up until I saw it wasn't self hosted, I had wrongly assumed it was aimed at running a personal/internal web server/site.
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by henesy 11y ago
I know Vita Nuova uses it in their consulting. I've heard of other fringe cases for various projects or systems. http://www.vitanuova.com/
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by henesy 11y ago
I can try to run some form of rudimentary benchmark tomorrow and I'll try to get back to this thread if I can. As for drawing. Plan9 is intended to be used graphically. Although the interface is by majority text (which is very handy).
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by henesy 11y ago
You're pretty spot on with the io.Reader/Writer idea. In Plan9 everything is a file, thus meaning that - potentially - everything implements a read/write capacity. If everything implements a read/write capacity and is de
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by henesy 11y ago
I don't have an immediate factual retort, but I personally have never experienced any performance issues. Do you have some form of benchmark or evidence you'd want to see on Plan9's performance?
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by henesy 11y ago
For what it's worth Plan9's C was written to a standardized format that was strongly enforced. All, or at minimum, most, of Plan9's C code was all written in a singular format, similar to how Go (contributed to by Plan9 devel
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by henesy 11y ago
Furthermore Go resembles Plan9's C libraries in many ways. Channels as chan, the concurrency support, and the focus on read/write are very much Plan9-isms. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/
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by henesy 11y ago
If memory serves Linux is just getting around to proper private/dynamic namespacing as of some recent version, or so I was told by a friend contributing to the kernel. Linux has been slow, but steady at adopting features out of Plan9 a
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by henesy 11y ago
Not sure I'd call it a successor as much as a cousin. Inferno is certainly based upon Plan9, but it is not Plan9. If you want a more up to date or maintained Plan9 check out 9front[1] or 9atom[2]. [1]: http://9front.org&#x2F
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by henesy 11y ago
Excellent. Lists like these are fantastic!
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by henesy 11y ago
This! InterimOS looks like a glimmer of hope in the dark. Here's to hoping it reaches its goals and we see an interim machine eventually.
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by henesy 11y ago
Is it intended to be able to drop down to the desktop just by quitting WC3?

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