Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

BTW, for Plan 9 noob enlightenment, HN ran this article today: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9 — Duke Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 18, 2022, at 3:19 PM, vic.thac...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, at 03:54, Antonio Barrones wrote: > [snip] >>> I understand

Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, at 03:54, Antonio Barrones wrote: [snip] >> I understand that Plan 9 is not being developed anymore, > It is not developed anymore in Bell Labs, but many of the original > developers are part of the Plan9 Foundation and they are promoting it > in different ways: https://plan

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

you need ip/ipconfig ndb/cs ndb/dns webfs abaco the ipconfig call may need a -R if you want to use dhcp rather than having a static ip from ndb. nsd/cs will set the sysname based on matching the mac address in lib/ndb/local, and this will be put in your prompt of any shell. this is nice but not

Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 01:54:02PM -0500, Antonio Barrones wrote: > Linux distros are not only "Linux", they are GNU/Linux.  Linux is only the > kernel of a GNU/Linux system (a distro). Android is not a distro because they > don't have GNU, but Android is "Linux" because it has Linux as kernel.

Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

Quoth Antonio Barrones: Linux distros are not only "Linux", they are GNU/Linux.  Linux is only the kernel of a GNU/Linux system (a distro). Android is not a distro because they don't have GNU, but Android is "Linux" because it has Linux as kernel. Linux distros are not only Linux, they are wh

Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

> I understand that Android isn't a fork of Linux, I meant to imply that > although Android is argued to be a Linux distro Linux distros are not only "Linux", they are GNU/Linux.  Linux is only the kernel of a GNU/Linux system (a distro). Android is not a distro because they don't have GNU, but

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

Try with DNSSERVER=8.8.8.8 (or any other dns server) before webfs. Antonio  -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1be0869af45e66b9-Me87ef1d13aa0f29cc3644fc3 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscripti

Re: [9fans] Despite being called a fork, is 9front similar to how Linux distros work?

Quoth Matt: I see. Now that I look at it, 9fans its more similar to 9front than Plan 9 indeed. My confusion arose from the description being "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs". Besides that, the subreddit is r/plan9, and people seem to talk more often about Plan 9 itself than 9front. Thank

RE: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

Hello Steve! After running these: ip/ipconfig ndb/dns webfs abaco and then running the Google command from the top I am getting this error: [cid:image003.png@01D80C08.EFC81AD0] any solution? Thank you. _resun From: Steve Simon Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 12:55