Plan 9 was developed at Bell Labs, the place where Unix was created, to be a successor to Unix. They took what they learned from Unix and tried to improve on it. Unfortunately, much of the world decided to keep using Unix like systems, the foundation of Linux, Android, and MacOS X.
How is session management handled [in] 9Front? In *nix one can use a utility called screen to continue a terminal session if a connection drops. If a task is running on a cpu server and my terminal loses power, can I continue where I left off when power resumes?
There is a utility called aan that can handled things like holding open a dropped connection. As for processes running on a cpu server, it depends on how it is running. You can send a command to a cpu server, and that sort of forks it off to run on it's own. For something interactive, like running doom, killing the terminal usually kills any program running like that. I've had the idea for something like a persistent rio, and Sun thin clients in the past did similar things. It would work especially well with Drawterm as it does no local processing. Then if you lose connection, the whole GUI and everything still runs, and you could even reconnect from a different terminal so the same session. It should be possible, and rio does post to /srv, but I don't know if anyone has tried it.
It kinda nice, but at the same time it... lacks accretion of abstractions and simplifications that make a lot of linux kinda more comfy? Or maybe it's my bias speaking. But basically, lots of this feels kinda plumbing without porcelain. Still interesting and educational to see...
The minimalism was deliberate. Adding creature comforts isn't impossible, but many of the people that have been drawn to Plan 9 were because they enjoyed the minimalism. When people do add to it, it tends to be personal projects to fit personal needs.
This series is the introduction to plan9 that's been missing. Thanks for making it!
9pug has been enjoying the series. Thanks for doing the deep dive on these sorts of things.
Great video! Thank you. You have nice grid config :)
OK, now you're just spoiling us.
I am so lost but so intrigued at the same time. What the heck is Plan9... I guess I have to watch more of these videos..
Plan 9 was developed at Bell Labs, the place where Unix was created, to be a successor to Unix. They took what they learned from Unix and tried to improve on it. Unfortunately, much of the world decided to keep using Unix like systems, the foundation of Linux, Android, and MacOS X.
So cool!
Have you done any videos on compiling C programs on Plan 9... I'd like that.
I've done a few. This is the intro video ua-cam.com/video/RGFc18n8gcM/v-deo.html
I plan on making some more as part of this series.
How is session management handled [in] 9Front? In *nix one can use a utility called screen to continue a terminal session if a connection drops. If a task is running on a cpu server and my terminal loses power, can I continue where I left off when power resumes?
There is a utility called aan that can handled things like holding open a dropped connection. As for processes running on a cpu server, it depends on how it is running. You can send a command to a cpu server, and that sort of forks it off to run on it's own. For something interactive, like running doom, killing the terminal usually kills any program running like that.
I've had the idea for something like a persistent rio, and Sun thin clients in the past did similar things. It would work especially well with Drawterm as it does no local processing. Then if you lose connection, the whole GUI and everything still runs, and you could even reconnect from a different terminal so the same session. It should be possible, and rio does post to /srv, but I don't know if anyone has tried it.
It kinda nice, but at the same time it... lacks accretion of abstractions and simplifications that make a lot of linux kinda more comfy? Or maybe it's my bias speaking. But basically, lots of this feels kinda plumbing without porcelain. Still interesting and educational to see...
The minimalism was deliberate. Adding creature comforts isn't impossible, but many of the people that have been drawn to Plan 9 were because they enjoyed the minimalism. When people do add to it, it tends to be personal projects to fit personal needs.
You now, i think about ai and film terminator. And i think that many many linux and open source its a danger. I think need search another OSs
My english very cool. I learn