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#9front and #plan9 drawterm users/devs:

Is there a way to log in remotely via drawterm without sourcing a user's $home/lib/profile? I recently ran into an issue where I borked my profile and was unable to login at all, so I'm looking for some possible recovery methods in the event it happens in the future and I don't have console/glenda access.

First day of my first time at #fosdem
Saw some interesting talks and met with people in rl i don't see so often. It was a little bit crowded but i still had a good time.
Excited for tomorrow, see you in the #plan9 devroom

🛸 Plan 9 is a Uniquely Complete Operating System https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/07/27/0/

#plan9 #osdev

cursed mascots

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/178943783
#unix_surrealism #9front #plan9 #nein

Doot do doooooot

got encrypted PDFs opening on plan9 :)

maybe now that I can read the PDF specification I can use it to get better font renderings :P

#plan9

Any #Plan9 or #9front expert on fedi? I heard a lot about it and few days ago when I spotted a new release of the 9front and there was #qcow2 #QEMU images, I started to look at it. However I never get the #rio #GUI session to work. I am starting the #VM by:

qemu-system-x86_64 \
-machine q35 -enable-kvm \
-m 2g -cpu host \
-vga std \
-drive "media=disk,if=virtio,file=$HOME/Downloads/9front-11952.amd64.qcow2" \
-netdev user,id=vioif0,hostfwd=tcp::5699-:22 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vioif0 \
-no-reboot \
-daemonize

my host system is #Debian #Linux running on #X11. The error message after login with glenda was not very informative though:

hjfs: fs is /dev/sd00/fs

init: starting /bin/rc
bind: #i: no frame buffer
rio: cannot open display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: file does not exist: '/dev/draw'
init: rc exit status: rc 217: rio 326: display open
init: starting /bin/rc

#Unix #FOSS #AskFedi #SDF

Morgen geht's für mich auf zu den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen!

Wer schaut am Wochenende bei unserem Plan 9-Stand vorbei?

#clt2026 #linux #plan9 #9front

#UNIX is not just an OS; it is the ultimate #IDE for #programmers. Arguably the best written introductory book on UNIX programming is "The UNIX Programming Environment", Kernighan (1983). This book covers UNIX V7, but I used it with 4.2BSD.

There is another jewel of a book of a similar kind, a free one to boot, by Prof. Ballesteros (King Juan Carlos University): "Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" (2007). Prof. Ballesteros wrote this book to teach his CS students the fundamentals of good OS design.

Although almost no one uses #Plan9 today, it is alive and kicking. It even runs on Raspberry Pi. Anyone interested in OSs and likes the philosophical underpinnings of UNIX should take a look at Plan 9.

The other must-read book is his "Notes on the Plan 9 3ed Kernel Source" (2007). It is a Lions-style commentary.

Prof. Ballesteros has many Plan 9 related publications in PDF format.

https://lsub.org/books-papers/

PS—Those with a historical bent should also read Organick's "The Multics System: An Examination of Its Structure" (1980). Multix is the mother of UNIX, and Plan 9 is the grown-up UNIX.

I guess this is where I start?

https://9front.org/iso/

I have an X270 , I assume that's a good one?

I have a 32bit x230 and some other maybe older
thinkpads if need be.

#plan9

It's Bobby Glendys!

#unix_surrealism #9front #bobby_glendys #glenda #plan9 #lunic