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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You explained it so well, that you actually got me interested in trying it some day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

If you ever want to just poke around a Plan 9 system, SDF Public Access UNIX System offers an ongoing Plan 9 Boot Camp.

Stop by and join us in com sometime!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Bottom of site: SDF Public Access UNIX System

(this page was generated using ksh, sed and awk)

I love this!

Edit: I just noticed this. Is this a miscalculation of the time or am I in the wrong timeline?

©1987-2065 SDF Public Access UNIX System, Inc. 501(c)(7)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What happens with the Plan 9 system after the boot camp has ended? From what I can see on that site, their Plan 9 shenanigans will end by mid-September. (SDF is NetBSD-centric AFAIK.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It used to be that everyone in the Boot Camp got their own VM that was wiped each season, but recently everything was migrated to a single installation that doesn't reset and everyone uses.

In short: now you get a permanent account.

And yes, SDF itself is NetBSD-based—the largest single installation as well as a primary testing environment, if I'm not mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's not too hard, given that NetBSD is a niche in a niche. But a permanent Plan 9 server account which I do not have to keep running sounds intriguing... thank you!