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[rio] Plan 9 is not UNIX (9p.sdf.org)
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For those interested in learning more about Plan 9 and trying it out in a public environment: SDF Public Access UNIX System is hosting their seasonal Plan 9 Boot Camp starting June 20th. Feel free to drop into com and say hello!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I miss my T420 that’s a great laptop

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Amazing. Do you feel that it has a future?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I certainly hope so.

In all seriousness, it seems to me that interest in Plan 9 will continue to grow from here, especially with 9front taking the lead and actually moving ahead with real development.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nice. I like the idea of simple and small. I've had a look at Plan 9 some years ago and had the impression it was mostly dead. Nice to hear that there is some movement.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like that if some alternative wm came out 9front would be more successful

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As in a less mouse-driven way to move around? Or just a straight up different window manager?

For the first, 9front has extras on top of Plan 9 – riow(1) and a /dev/kbdtap device described in rio(4) – to allow for more keyboard-driven workflows. It can make rio into a sort of mouse-driven i3/ratpoison-ish thing... kind of.

I autostart it with rio like this:

riow </dev/kbdtap >/dev/kbdtap |[3] mybar

where mybar is a shell function that prints the status bar at the bottom of the screen. That part is used to intercept mouse clicks and turn them into commands for the audio player, zuke.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Do you use 9front for anything "real"?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess that depends on if you consider doing basically all of my day-to-day computing as doing anything "real".

I use it for writing, email, programming, browsing, drawing, games... pretty much everything I would do on any other machine. Anything that I can't do directly in Plan 9 is done by accessing from Plan 9.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

does proton work on it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, but it comes with Doom as well as a bunch of other games and emulators. See games(1) and nintendo(1) for details.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Fantastic styling

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of Slackware, back in the 90s.

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