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Hello!
Welcome to my plan9 (but really 9front) personal journey/blog. IDK really how to write shit like this so, in place of anything profound i can provide at this point, all i have to say is big ups to everyone who has kept plan9 alive this long so that I, as a UNIX scrub, can experience its elegance.

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"Essential" softwares
9clock, a tty-clock style digital clock
Shithub, a git host for plan9 software
Rio tips, tricks, and patches to add color scheme and wallpaper support
Some of the best all around plan9 software, check out vshot especially

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Why I use plan9 (and why most people shouldn't)
Let me start off by saying that I encourage you wholly and truly, to give plan9 a chance. Probably not as your daily driver, but in a QEMU or VirtualBox or whatever your favourite virtualisation platform is.
My reason for discouraging you to use it as an "Operating System" and not a "program" (if you see what I mean), is because Plan 9 is hard
Especially, and I cannot stress this enough, if you are coming from a non-UNIX os (although unix experience is also a ouble edged sword). To give you a head start, heres some things i have learned:

Plan9 doesn't like your hardware, unless you are using a Raspberry Pi or oooooold ass Thinkpad

https://echoing9.neocities.org/hardware.html
Go:

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Url: https://echoing9.neocities.org/hardware.html

My personal hardware
X230T (dedicated 9front laptop)

THis is my pride and joy. I got it from ebay for £50 (42 + shipping) with no hard drive and a bios lock. I cleaned up, zapped the security chip with some tweezers and stuck the hard drive from another laptop in there and BOOM, a fully functional (and touch enabled!) 9front machine. It is a little on the weaker side as cpu and ram goes (Only 8gb at ddr3-1333mhz), but if i really wanted a workhorse i wouldnt be running 9front on it lol
HP Laptop (CPU/Auth/FS server / occasional aio terminal)

This wonderful machine, at least whats left of it, served as my CPU server. Its only an old A series chip, and dual core at that, but it gets the job done and hey, any learning experience is good. It taught me not only how to setup a 9front cpu server, but also to never buy another laptop from HP.

Dell Inspiron 2560 (shits and giggles / sometimes "diskless" terminal)

This is a laptop from 2000. Its pretty low on RAM, only 256mb, and the battery isnt supported in 9front as its an early ACPI implementation, so keeping it around is pretty much a novelty, and it runs a small void linux install most of the time as a result.