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by metadat • 2 years ago

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tonymet• 2 years ago

For scatalogical humor they missed an opportunity to launch on gishub

INTPenis• 2 years ago

That page loads one line at the time. I know plan9 should be very cluster friendly, can't they balance incoming http traffic load across multiple nodes?

exitb• 2 years ago

Rc may not be web scale.

pronoiac• 2 years ago

Looks like the Internet Archive got a copy, mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240430041911/https://only9fans...

noobermin• 2 years ago

The 9front people have always been a funny bunch. I've always wanted to use plan9 tools seriously partially because of their websites and docs are so amusing but I never could get past just running it in a vm.

throwup238• 2 years ago

Sexy time videos from the maintainers might just be what gets me to switch my daily driver to plan9!

I've always felt that Linus didn't show enough skin.

tazu2• 2 years ago

Acme is genuinely worth trying, you can run it on Linux/Mac without a VM [1]. I'm pretty sure Russ Cox [2] and Rob Pike use it as their daily driver which is insane because it doesn't even have syntax highlighting. I used it for years when I was in school as an exercise in masochism, but I learned a lot about Unix, and the mouse-driven workflow actually grew on me. I hated that it required a 3-button mouse though, made trackpads basically unusable.

[1] https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/

[2] https://usesthis.com/interviews/russ.cox/

jxy• 2 years ago

Macbook trackpads work fine combined with control/option/command as three buttons. I put the metal screen for devdraw together initially.

It should work similarly on X11, though I never tried.

rhinoceraptor• 2 years ago

That's not an accident, Rob Pike famously hates syntax highlighting, he's derided it as "childish" on multiple occasions.

DEADMINCE3• 2 years ago

Acme is genuinely worth trying,

What makes it better than say vi and not just different?

znpy• 2 years ago

So name broken links in the uses this.com interview

graemep• 2 years ago

Just installed it. Any tips for what the interesting features are? The one that stood out from the video linked to in another comment was running any selected text as commands.

mkovach• 2 years ago

I still use Acme as my daily driver, with a good smattering of Sam on my vertical monitor for various things. About 90% of my scripts are written in rc or use the tools in $PLAN9/bin (awk, sed, seq, etc.)

It gives me good consistency between Mac and Linux (or WSL), so I highly recommend plan9port as a gateway to plan9 and 9front.

anthk3• 2 years ago

It runs well natively; but for older systems, I'd suggest running this first once you get an internet connection before inst/start:

    % webfs
    % ramfs
    % hget http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rc/mountcwfs >/tmp/mountcwfs
    % chmod +x /tmp/mountcwfs
    % bind /tmp/mountcwfs /bin/inst/mountcwfs

Then, at preppart:

     > d other
     > d fscache
     > d fsworm
     > a fsmain [first free cylinder] .+100%
     > w
     > q

jdougan• 2 years ago

Could always just try Inferno

zilti2• 2 years ago

That hasn't seen so much as even a patch in years

0xpgm• 2 years ago

I wonder what the original plan9 designers ken thompson, robe pike etc think of the 9front people.

Maybe find them amusing - or happy to see their creation being pushed forward

tazu2• 2 years ago

Figured it was HN hug of death, saw "9front", immediately made sense.

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