[rcarmo]

Plan9 is one of those things I go back to every Summer and that is somewhere between completely mind-blowing (check out the GIF at https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/09/02/1900 to see how fast it boots in real-time on a single-core Pi) and almost completely unfit for purpose because it just doesn’t integrate well (or easily enough) with modern systems (I also considered using it for a writing “appliance” - https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/09/22/1230 - but syncing data off it was a blocker, and three-button mouse chording GUIs are just not a thing I want to deal with).

One of the “stupid” ideas I have in my back-burner is to rewrite rio so that it works like Mac OS 7 (the platinum look with window shading), which in my mind was always a very sane and efficient way to manage windows — but time is not on my side…

I have one of my usual lists of resources for it on https://taoofmac.com/space/os/plan9 - comment here if it’s missing anything you particularly like.

[moody__]

Your link for 9front mentions that ssh2 is not included. This is because the code was rewritten and the program is now just called ssh(1). Other features of ssh are accessible through sshfs(4), and sshnet(4). The only difference in features compared to the original Plan 9 is that 9front does not currently have code for an ssh server. I know some users who are interested in this capability so it'll likely happen at some point.