Re: [9fans] Plan 9 History Timeline

2025-08-02 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
esn't really help. In general, that timeline should ideally reflect the state of the systems, which is not always represented in the papers. A paper might release when a system is already running for months, if not years, and some systems didn't p

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 History Timeline

2025-07-31 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
for me, but for people who have no github it could be easiest for them to just send a mail or something. Ideally, if you know the sources of the data, you can also provide links in the sources file. Though I can imagine that some details only persist in memory. Thank you for contributing. si

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 History Timeline

2025-07-21 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
that anyway. For reference, I'm building the svg on a Windows 11 system using the git bash. I also have a few posix tools installed via cygwin. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T64ffc04063a43a5a-M797d949007d4224f5de64b82 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 History Timeline

2025-07-19 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
re systems, you have to adjust the script.awk file and add them. Patches and ideas for better visualization or better script functionality are also welcome. Also, consider that repo as a very open license, probably MIT (which I'll add asap). sirjofri -

[9fans] Plan 9 History Timeline

2025-07-17 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
etimes missing. That includes the latest iwp9 papers/talks. I'll happily merge patches, if you want to contribute: https://github.com/sirjofri/Plan9History It's as easy as adding lines to a text file (and provide sources, if possible). The SVG is somewhat interactive if you use a mode

Re: [9fans] the linux appliance has networking

2025-07-05 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
Hi, Not that it really makes sense, but have you tried running 9front as a thread? Inferno could also be interesting... sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te76ab24d61c9ede7-M283c0dd451b9938b395fa20f Delivery

Re: [9fans] The Big Questioning: Plan 9 everywhere?

2025-07-01 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
ve > aboard. One thing I hate is that everything nowadays has to be implemented in Python or C#, while it's often much easier to use languages like awk or sed (in combination with a shell script). sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9

Re: [9fans] The Big Questioning: Plan 9 everywhere?

2025-06-30 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
rrupted files that I had to delete using the cwfs.cmd console (and partially restore from the distribution). Sorry, I can't tell more. sirjofri 1. To elaborate somewhat further, I don't have any linux installation in my environment, and I wouldn't want to get one if possible. -

Re: [9fans] The Big Questioning: Plan 9 everywhere?

2025-06-30 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
system. I guess getting perl on plan 9 would mostly mean that he could develop perl programs for plan 9, not run perl programs made for linux on a plan 9 system (guessing from file paths and modules that are built for linux), but my perl experience dates

Re: [9fans] The Big Questioning: Plan 9 everywhere?

2025-06-30 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
x27;s better on hjfs and gefs, but that's the reason why I refuse to run any go stuff on my system. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf84d656c78bbda91-M4ece23d2f193bb1c4e9c01be Delivery options: http

Re: [9fans] linux vm appliance

2025-06-15 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
effort it'll be to support all the chaos. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td71c087b037b58f9-M0911d35daa4823f649d0f7fb Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] linux vm appliance

2025-06-15 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
ull X server or Wayland compositor. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td71c087b037b58f9-M396ad053e785c54a6559d5f0 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] The Big Questioning: Plan 9 everywhere?

2025-06-09 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
rote, the idea of Plan 9 is quite simple, I think: every resource can be abstracted as a filesystem, and thus be presented in a namespace. The challenge is to actually do the work of designing that abstraction. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https:/

Re: [9fans] The Big Questioning: Plan 9 everywhere?

2025-06-07 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
t; These systems begin with graphical interaction in mind. > They support single-user tasks and desktop workflows. > They reuse or wrap standard interface abstractions. Desktop doesn't mean GUI-first, in my opinion. And also, plan 9 was more graphical from the beginning, and they conside

Re: [9fans] A challenge for all of you out there ...

2025-06-03 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
03.06.2025 02:10:51 Ron Minnich : > I have this picture in my head of a p9f.org web page, showing a > desktop with lola, and a "try it in your web browser" button, and a > "try it on qemu" button, and a "boot it on your laptop" button. I believe the zero-effort choice for anyone would be the web o

Re: [9fans] Self Hosting and 9front Development

2025-06-03 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
ng. I think this is a lot more work than just writing up how things work, and it probably also involves user tests, as well as making good images (screenshots and graphics). I don't want to make this mail any longer, and it's long enough already. Thank you for coming to m

Re: [9fans] A challenge for all of you out there ...

2025-06-02 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
x27;m not a writer, even though I enjoy it. Here's the rough outline I wrote many months ago. If I go back to that, I should revise that. https://shithub.us/sirjofri/sergui/64335a8573bd09fd01220bd1386d1754f4c14ed3/text/f.html sirjofri -- 9fans: 9

Re: [9fans] 11th IWP9 proceedings

2025-06-02 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
Hi, for easier reading and permalinks, having all the papers also as individual pdf files would be really cool. I think we had that for earlier IWP9s, too. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T273587b7cce74ef5

Re: [9fans] uvlong does not work on 9legacy raspberry pi image

2025-05-19 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
plan 9. I can imagine that using the proper format fixes the problems, though I also don't fully understand why the problems occur like they're described. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

Re: [9fans] Re: Curious about the state of Plan 9 / 9front in practice

2025-05-15 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
not desktop computers necessarily, think factory, sensors and embedded). sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td32c2e656057a991-M9840520e0f302f6a1407d7ba Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] add delkey(1) to factotum man page's "see also"

2025-04-20 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
should be enough, considering the context of these man pages. sirjofri http://man.postnix.pw/9front/1/delkey http://man.postnix.pw/9front/4/factotum -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2300ac30b8b3d98d-Mef098e087561391a5aa651

Re: [9fans] github mirror status

2025-04-08 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
t, like some kinda repost or something. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2a9f9f77bdb28cec-Mf7c8bde636683e2ed00460e2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] 9phone

2025-03-25 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
the pinephone port is where it is right now. I hope I can find time this year to invent a compatible UI for it. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4d13b3016d2a2310-Mf93a01185773b777b223ac13 Delivery options: https

Re: [9fans] slides ...

2025-03-18 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
I can't reach it right now. I can also look on my laptop if I can find it. I remember I found .v back then, but there was something I didn't like - maybe it was just the lack of documentation. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permali

Re: [9fans] Chemnitz Linux Days 2025

2025-03-15 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
Following up on that, it looks like I'll be there. I don't know the location yet, but it seems pretty open so it should be quite possible to find each other if there are obvious signs. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.to

[9fans] 9front as a webxdc app (deltachat)

2025-02-26 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
ual 9front instances, running on different chat participants. Disclaimer: I'm just sharing the news, I didn't do anything to make that work. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9c3e7a12cb2b7621-M0dcda3f3c04

Re: [9fans] Which acme?

2025-02-13 Thread sirjofri
Hi, I mostly use acme on 9front, so I use the acme version. In the rare case that I want an acme on windows, I use the acme-sac, which is the inferno version. I never used any other version besides those and the 9legacy version, back when I was using 9legacy. sirjofri

Re: [9fans] usb9pfs: network booting without the network

2025-02-10 Thread sirjofri
onus if you include some hardware button as a second factor. I'd also like to investigate inferno more. I basically left it back in 2018/9 when I switched from 9legacy to 9front. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T18a

Re: [9fans] usb9pfs: network booting without the network

2025-02-10 Thread sirjofri
hought it would be interesting to use this as a 9p interface. Imagine you could rcpu or rimport into the phone using that port. Since most people nowadays probably use a USB-to-serial adapter, it's pretty similar from the experience. sirjofri -- 9

Re: [9fans] u-root srvfiles command works fine on Plan 9

2025-02-06 Thread sirjofri
h keys and such. That's why I built webbox: https://shithub.us/sirjofri/webbox/HEAD/info.html It's a pure rc+tcp80 solution, which uses a tcp80 with a few extensions (see the readme). It also has a snarf solution (fill the snarf buffer with text or "data" from a web form),

Re: [9fans] Patcher file server

2025-01-23 Thread sirjofri
till be there, but that should be enough for building/testing etc. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T332d621280e18c2d-M66d07e92e9bcd5481099c2ae Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-21 Thread sirjofri
ite well with 9front btw. A touch-optimized phone app would ideally "just work" on that laptop. Regarding modem: easy tethering, out of the box. You could also make your phone an easy VPN bridge to your home network. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-21 Thread sirjofri
ne on the network. The UI part is only a user interface to that whole system -- ideally it can do as much as any existing plan 9 UI we have today. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T937367c51de50ce3-Ma7ef2de0e9839

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread sirjofri
ps://github.com/driusan/9front-A64 (I think this is the most current version) *We=currently mostly _not_ me sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T16bc2f805737b521-M710a38eecbb72c204bdbf806 Delivery options: ht

Re: [9fans] Chemnitz Linux Days 2025

2025-01-19 Thread sirjofri
19.01.2025 20:00:04 Daniel Maslowski via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > Should we apply for a community/project table? No idea if that is still > available. I'm thinking about it for next year, if we can organize it. This year it's already too late. -- 9fans:

[9fans] Chemnitz Linux Days 2025

2025-01-19 Thread sirjofri
Hi everyone, just asking if someone plans to go to the chemnitz linux days (Chemnitzer Linux-Tage) this year (22./23.03.)? I'm considering going there. Could be a place to meet. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/g

Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread sirjofri
18.01.2025 23:47:22 Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 10:29:48PM +0100, sirjofri wrote: >> In general, we have a lot of "this is how tool X works" manuals, and a lack >> of "this is how task X can be done" documentation

Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread sirjofri
users especially encounter situations where they just don't know what can be done. There's lots of knowledge about this hidden in various mailing list threads, chat groups, and blogs. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.co

Re: [9fans] 9p on kasa smart plugs

2025-01-16 Thread sirjofri
be fair, I don't own any smart home device, and I'm also not the person who wants to automate the home like that. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T7e46748858d9ab87-M0459341dcd89fe560fdf685c Delivery opti

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread sirjofri
t; > You were the one wanting userspace devdraw. Working on some variation of it. The end goal would be, having detachable rio sessions. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T7692a612f26c8ec5-M752e99d66ec0fbf9

[9fans] Arduino programming on plan 9

2025-01-01 Thread sirjofri
work. I don't know enough about what protocols are used for that, and how easy they are to implement, or maybe if we even have something like that already using xyz-modem or whatever. Did anyone do experiments on that already, using plan 9? sir

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2024-12-27 Thread sirjofri
much GPUs can do if used correctly. It's just incredible. Can't wait to see what will happen in the future to Plan 9 and GPUs in combination! sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T7692a612f26c8ec5-M5e

Re: [9fans] examples for setting up secstore for a laptop

2024-12-18 Thread sirjofri
erstandable if you start dissecting "the whole" in your mind to understand the individual components. The individual commands make sense then (even though you always need to read the man pages[2] to manage it since you don't touch that part of the system very often). sirjofri [1]

Re: [9fans] examples for setting up secstore for a laptop

2024-12-17 Thread sirjofri
it would be possible to put your wpa2 keys in the boot paq file. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2e892f330bc0513b-M54fe8f2131969a862ac9f091 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] 9fans now moderated

2024-12-14 Thread sirjofri
g/9fans.html. > > Much thanks to Russ for managing the list for so long. Thank you for managing this and taking over the task :) sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T124eb3ec9c594189-M0c31585fe084aadc7bcbf1b

[9fans] Vcard filesystem

2024-11-08 Thread sirjofri
leaks, and other things that could be improved, but it is something that could be used as a backend system for other tools, or just used directly. https://shithub.us/sirjofri/vcardfs https://git.sr.ht/~sirjofri/vcardfs (Technical details following, feel free to stop reading here). It comes w

Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-07 Thread sirjofri
you evade our questions and requests? I think the situation would be like that if you just honestly responded months ago when we had a similar discussion. I'm not your enemy, I just can't understand. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-06 Thread sirjofri
s more like a "please do the work", but it's still the worst way to do it. I don't like those times we live in, with GPT being used as it is... sirjofri (Written by me, sadly _not_ obviously) -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https:

Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-06 Thread sirjofri
Other than that, it would be great if people could read mails with an imaginary smiling emoji at the end. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9d57d40811a8ec5d-Mb3264a40e7f9c1fb793529ae Delivery options: https://9

Re: [9fans] Re: How do you deal with newlines (line feed, LF, \n) in filenames?

2024-08-10 Thread sirjofri
ky enough to have an ls, walk or find that can quote them, you can parse them using different tools (awk, sed, or build them yourself in C). It would probably easier to circumvent this by getting file by file, for example using some dirstat counterpart or maybe even a for loo

Re: [9fans] How do you deal with newlines (line feed, LF, \n) in filenames?

2024-08-10 Thread sirjofri
up the flags. Good luck finding a solution that works for you. I think there was a doscussion some time ago to add quotes to ls output for situations like these. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T11149f1f949593f5

Re: [9fans] Where can I find active Plan 9 communities for support and collaboration?

2024-08-04 Thread sirjofri
last official release (4th) is 9legacy. They could state that more clearly on their website, for newcomers. We also had a very long thread like three years ago about what p9f actually wants. Hope that clarifies things a bit. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permali

Re: [9fans] Where can I find active Plan 9 communities for support and collaboration?

2024-08-04 Thread sirjofri
ting the ISO is deprecated and should not be used wouldn't be difficult > either, if this is the case. Good. You may have noticed that I asked about the wikis. I'd really like to add some missing information, if that's fine with p9f. sirjofri -

Re: [9fans] Where can I find active Plan 9 communities for support and collaboration?

2024-08-04 Thread sirjofri
ity. If you don't want to learn, then don't learn and go back to linux, windows, or even better, mac. Furthermore, gardening is also a nice hobby. sirjofri P.S.: Just in case, I don't really see distinct Plan 9 "communities", only one. There are different "branche

[9fans] p9f.org, 9p.io wiki questions

2024-08-04 Thread sirjofri
n 9, as a nice overview. Would that end up in the p9f wiki or should that better be placed in 9p.io? Would that even be welcome in such an official place such as p9f.org? sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1e

Re: [9fans] Where can I find active Plan 9 communities for support and collaboration?

2024-08-04 Thread sirjofri
ardware support, and 9front, which is a modern version of plan 9, developed independently, and some things are very different. There are a few other versions developed for more special purposes. Again, another long mail. I probably have too much time right now... sirjofri

Re: [9fans] Where can I find active Plan 9 communities for support and collaboration?

2024-08-04 Thread sirjofri
who asked didn't read the manuals/docs. That's often a waste of time for the ones who would consider answering. In some cases I don't answer because I know there are people who know more than me about that topic. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9804faa2e50a80d8-M634d87ea2e0624837e801bfd Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Improving Plan 9 Documentation

2024-08-03 Thread sirjofri
someone who just loves good documentation and who also loves to document. (That's also one reason why this mail is so long, so please forgive me). There are also a few more things to say, but this mail is long enough. If you want, you can email me off-list and I can tell a bit more.

Re: [9fans] venti/mirrorarenas usage

2024-08-03 Thread sirjofri
eyes and two noses, and an artist who asks what could be improved with that. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tca0eb0fbb2404e31-M0bfa639f0e36e68f34550857 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Re: venti/mirrorarenas usage

2024-08-01 Thread sirjofri
issue and understanding _when_ you can even help is very important. Thank you, Noam, for digging deep into the venti black hole and trying to understand as much as possible. sirjofri P.S.: I don't know enough about venti, so I won't even try to solve the issue. --

Re: [9fans] Re: venti/mirrorarenas usage

2024-07-31 Thread sirjofri
piritual beliefs) Not that this says anything about that person, but it seems to be an interesting rabbit hole. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tca0eb0fbb2404e31-M37cbecfb60805a989c3b0149 Delivery options: http

Re: [9fans] Re: venti/mirrorarenas usage

2024-07-31 Thread sirjofri
e by now. But we value peers, not parrots. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tca0eb0fbb2404e31-M7f5bede9d81467bda1936f86 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-28 Thread sirjofri
r adding it to 9front or any other system if that's fine with everyone. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te954fc89420dc526-M4131db3a67a9fd692293f42b Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-26 Thread sirjofri
26.07.2024 03:50:56 Ben Huntsman : > Is 9atom still updated in any way, shape, or form, or are you working off > that really old version from like 10 years ago?  I'm working with this code currently: https://github.com/Plan9-Archive/9atom/tree/master/sys/src/libxml

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread sirjofri
> and if you make huge profits from this code, you owe me "some beer". At the moment I doubt that 9front will want to include my stuff. At least, I'm not planning to send a patch (yet). I share it with people, because xml support is somewhat missing. sirjofri

[9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread sirjofri
ave a working (and wip), but very limited xslt processor. Both tools are in a separate repository (xmltools). Libxml and libxpath are available here: http://shithub.us/sirjofri/xml-9atom/HEAD/info.html https://git.sr.ht/~sirjofri/xml-9atom Xq and xslt are available here: http://shithub.us/sir

[9fans] Simon Tatham puzzle collection (port, wip)

2024-05-27 Thread sirjofri
g npe on your system, you can ignore that and just manage the npe installation yourself (see README). Note this is quite an early version and things are missing and buggy. A small list is attached. You can get the collection on shithub (https://shithub.us/sirjofri/puzzles/HEAD/info.html when

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-18 Thread sirjofri
l environment, just set up a slack. And yes, this is somewhat of a troll (I'm not good at it). > Take care This is very important. Take care. Have a nice day and enjoy the sun from the shadows. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9f

Re: Clarifying Lucio's Additional Requests [Was: Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9. ]

2024-05-15 Thread sirjofri
rio versions with theming etc. I don't want that. It's not part of the distribution (with very few exceptions), and it's 100% optional. We don't always have to agree, but as long as we can discuss things in peace and exchange information we can still be a community. si

Re: Clarifying Lucio's Additional Requests [Was: Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9. ]

2024-05-15 Thread sirjofri
list evolved like that and people don't want to contribute in that environment, or is it the reason why it evolved like that? Funnily enough, the 9fans discord community is very nice, helpful, I can barely see any trolling attempt at all (at least I can't remember anything like that).

Re: Clarifying Lucio's Additional Requests [Was: Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9. ]

2024-05-15 Thread sirjofri
if she should fill out that one specific column that is described as "please fill out this column". Those people aren't here on this mailing list, but I would totally understand extremely verbose (-v) mails like yours if you managed people like that for many years! I'm g

Re: Clarifying Lucio's Additional Requests [Was: Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9. ]

2024-05-15 Thread sirjofri
e yourself and give something back to the community. Hunt for bugs and fix them, or write tools that helps people, or improve the documentation. This should help the community much more than top-level organization when there is no top-level. I hope this mail finds you well, please read it with som

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread sirjofri
13.05.2024 12:12:49 ibrahim via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 11:57 AM, sirjofri wrote: >> So, you could say, plan 9 from bell labs is the last released version, 4th >> edition. The others (9legacy, 9front, ...) are also plan 9, just not plan 9 >

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread sirjofri
So, with that definition, the system described in the paper "Plan 9 from bell labs" is not plan9, because it describes any system that uses the same concepts? So, plan9 is like UNIX™ and there's no such thing as a concept about plan 9? Note that 9front never claimed to be a continuation, but a f

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-13 Thread sirjofri
ut building a list of companies that use plan 9 technology, just so people can get involved with them, and now that I'm searching for a new job that's even more interesting for me personally. (Not sure if I want to do plan 9 as $dayjob, but I could see it as an option.) That

[9fans] 9p.zone no longer available

2024-03-11 Thread sirjofri
le at chat.only9fans.com, and it'll probably stay there. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1c23ad37a2cc978d-M8dd074d6a9a59c9f482ae9bd Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Content of your /rc/bin/service or /dis/svc ?

2024-03-06 Thread sirjofri
06.03.2024 11:36:39 Edouard Klein : > > sirjofri writes: > >> Hi, >> >> 05.03.2024 22:38:59 Edouard Klein : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thank you for your answer. >>> >>> >>> sirjofri writes: >>> >>>

Re: [9fans] Content of your /rc/bin/service or /dis/svc ?

2024-03-05 Thread sirjofri
Hi, 05.03.2024 22:38:59 Edouard Klein : > Hi, > > Thank you for your answer. > > > sirjofri writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I don't use /rc/bin/service anymore, but I use /cfg/machinename/service >> instead. My contents are copies of what's in /

Re: [9fans] Content of your /rc/bin/service or /dis/svc ?

2024-03-02 Thread sirjofri
you don't understand something, just ask :) Btw it's quite common to "deactivate" services by renaming the files to have a leading "!". In general, everything that follows the naming scheme and is executable will work. sirjofri -

Re: [9fans] dd(1) takes very long

2024-03-01 Thread sirjofri
ssor, but I doubt you'll get much performance out of it in a case like this (local machine). I guess it's more useful for separate machines with slower network connections. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/gro

Re: [9fans] Formation of a Plan 9 Core Team

2024-01-26 Thread sirjofri
at many things are like they are on purpose. I was often grounded by people like ori, hiro, mycroftiv, kvik and a few others on grid, as well as cat-v. I learned that being part of Plan 9 does not necessarily mean contributing large chunks of code, or changing many things to be "better" (

Re: [9fans] Formation of a Plan 9 Core Team

2024-01-26 Thread sirjofri
d aspects in there. I just can't envision that in an official 5e release, but in another fork (maybe of an existing fork). I personally would think it's best to built upon 9front, because they have good hardware support already. And there's many great ideas in that bubble, some of

Re: [9fans] Formation of a Plan 9 Core Team

2024-01-26 Thread sirjofri
ot;official" 386BSD, they even looked for another name, which ended up being "FreeBSD". I'll write another mail as response to your new mail. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8d272411830cebfc-M995ec6ebe520824e44358edb Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] iwp9 paper submission ?

2023-11-08 Thread sirjofri
27.10.2023 18:40:51 o...@eigenstate.org: > Short summary -- we're working on it. It's likely to be at a different > location than we had initially announced. We're waiting to confirm > before we put out the call for papers and specific dates. Are there any news on that? If there are bigger issues

[9fans] Survey: touch user interfaces and plan 9

2023-09-08 Thread sirjofri
27;re unsure you can just skip the question. I'm pretty sure you can be done within 5-10 minutes if you want, but it's very hard to estimate the time because you can add as much text (and details) as you want. Thank you (questions below) sirjofri Before going into the questions, fe

Re: [9fans] Public Access 9front systems

2023-06-12 Thread sirjofri
ental). It wants some admin love and more grids in other countries besides eu. (Note that I'm part of 9p.zone and the (paying) admin behind eu.9p.zone.) sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T

Re: [9fans] wctl

2023-05-09 Thread sirjofri
ndow state as two strings, also padded to 12. If you do the math: 6*12=72. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf13f657beb7b12c0-M653f4f77683fc542820c5944 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Script to apply Edit commands in acme

2023-01-16 Thread sirjofri
in the man pages. What could work though, is running ssam (or sam) on the data file in your acme filesystem. It just exposes an interface for each of your acme windows with a few files to control it. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.to

Re: [9fans] discord invite link (was: sirjofri's Annual Christmas (and New-Year) Post)

2022-12-27 Thread sirjofri
I dunno. Most focused discussions happen on the mailing lists anyway. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te12d98382a4fe46a-M8ee6947eb8c78e399c6cb743 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] discord invite link (was: sirjofri's Annual Christmas (and New-Year) Post)

2022-12-26 Thread sirjofri
Hello, sure, here's a link that shouldn't expire: https://discord.gg/R8ra7QwNs3 It's the 9fans discord channel, which is probably not as official as it may sound. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.c

[9fans] sirjofri's Annual Christmas (and New-Year) Post

2022-12-26 Thread sirjofri
peace with your relatives, and that you can start the new year with peace and love and friendship. Christmas is about god being with us, so may god be with you all and bless you! sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/

[9fans] ChatGPT story about glenda

2022-12-23 Thread sirjofri
Prompt: Can you write a short fictional story about glenda, the Plan 9 bunny, and her adventures in an unknown filesystem? The Story™ (unedited) Glenda was a curious little bunny who lived in the land of Plan 9. One day, while exploring the vast expanse of her home filesystem, she stumbled upo

Re: [9fans] Drawterm on F-Droid

2022-12-23 Thread sirjofri
e a fullscreen mode for keyboard and mouse setups. Native landscape mode is something I already tested and should work quite well if it's in. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T61300a35947fa972-M431eba3c8ff618a0

Re: [9fans] Drawterm on F-Droid

2022-12-15 Thread sirjofri
fine in most cases, at least on my devices. Getting rid of the kb button and the checkboxes is planned for the future as soon as keyboard and mouse support works stable. Maybe even with a full fullscreen mode. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

Re: [9fans] Drawterm on F-Droid

2022-12-10 Thread sirjofri
have it in a separate repo, but I can try to merge that change to the fdroid repo asap. (Asap means, as soon as I have time). Sorry. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T61300a35947fa972-M58311af0b3f655de92ebff

Re: [9fans] Drawterm on F-Droid

2022-12-08 Thread sirjofri
welcome! sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T61300a35947fa972-M12ecee97be58c87b30547008 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-11-03 Thread sirjofri
ust one example, pretty sure you cam find other examples yourself. Well, again I just want to add a small little detail that's great but I write a long passage. Sorry for the long message. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.to

Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-10-30 Thread sirjofri
That's just my thoughts. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td6c4be6d8502dbd0-M4909fd69995720631c9cd88f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Drawterm on F-Droid

2022-10-02 Thread sirjofri
for example the icons. When I get a stable version with my changes I'd also notice you so you can integrate it. sirjofri -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T61300a35947fa972-Ma348b5e47f5f702a1bda08ec Deliver

[9fans] Drawterm on F-Droid

2022-09-30 Thread sirjofri
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.echoline.drawterm/ Have fun sirjofri PS: I'm currently working on an improved version with some more stable app structure which should give us a few features and allow us to fix a few very annoying bugs. -- 9f

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