• rhabarba
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    1445 months ago

    7.14% unknown!

    The year of Plan 9 on the desktop!

          • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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            215 months ago

            A rare sighting of a Plan 9 user! You need to be protected at all cost! Your species is extremely rare and important for future studies.

            BTW for a moment I was upset, because I thought this is a screenshot of Reddit. I kinda like the old look of it.

          • @antrosapien@lemmy.ml
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            55 months ago

            What desktop environment is that? Or is it built in by default or doesn’t work quite similar to linux?

            • bubstance
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              It is called rio(1) and it comes with Plan 9.

              There is a Unix/X11 port that contains most of the Plan 9 userspace—including a version of rio—called plan9port.

              It is not nearly as good as using the real thing.

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              I use it because it’s truly a “complete system” in a way that Linux and even the BSDs are not—every program is an example in itself and it comes with a ton of various scratch-built utilities that you don’t usually find as part of a typical Linux distro. Stuff like a basic torrent or IRC client just sort of fall out of the way Plan 9 is organized and implemented.

              It also provides me with a distraction-free environment and a set of tools that I enjoy using, even if some aspects of Plan 9 as, say, a laptop daily driver are inconvenient or awkward. It really is better suited for networked computing.

              I was pretty much sold from first contact because Plan 9 is the way that I feel best matches what I’ve always wanted from my machines: a simple grid of networked appliances where I can route the various resources and hardware in whatever way I require.

                  • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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                    Bottom of site: SDF Public Access UNIX System

                    (this page was generated using ksh, sed and awk)

                    I love this!

                    Edit: I just noticed this. Is this a miscalculation of the time or am I in the wrong timeline?

                    ©1987-2065 SDF Public Access UNIX System, Inc. 501©(7)

                  • rhabarba
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                    25 months ago

                    What happens with the Plan 9 system after the boot camp has ended? From what I can see on that site, their Plan 9 shenanigans will end by mid-September. (SDF is NetBSD-centric AFAIK.)

              • rhabarba
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                25 months ago

                I wish someone would port Python and BorgBackup to it. Venti/Fossil are not quite as nice for multi-OS backups.

                • bubstance
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                  Python 2.5.1 was distributed as part of 9front back when it used hg, but it was ultimately removed from the base system once we switched over to git9. 9legacy still packages binaries, however; they’re up to 2.7.6 for Python and 2.9.2 for Mercurial.

                  I never bother with venti/fossil, honestly. I’m more of a cwfs kind of person, but Ori’s gefs has been attracting my attention lately.

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                    Venti/Fossil are awesome for a Plan 9 network. Sadly, the world isn’t Plan 9. TIL about gefs though.

          • jawa21
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            35 months ago

            I mean, leave it to us weirdos on sdf for stuff like this.

            • bubstance
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              In #cat-v? Not regularly. I mostly hang out in gridchat with a handful of the 9front people.

        • rhabarba
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          125 months ago

          Surprisingly many people don’t need the “modern” “web” for daily driving.

      • bubstance
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        Additionally, for those that may want a Plan 9 that’s being actively developed and will actually work on modern hardware:

        https://9front.org

        There’s also 9legacy, which is basically “classic” Plan 9 with some patches from 9front.

    • Eugenia
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      25 months ago

      The “unknown” is Windows. If you change the graph to see the whole range from 2008 to date, you will see that whenever there’s a big spike or dip on Unknown, it’s the exact opposite for Windows.