Plan 9, attempt 2. This time I’m running Plan 9 4th edition on my Raspberry Pi 3B using Richard Miller’s RPi port. This is what Devine Lu Linvega and Steve Lord did. Why plain 4th edition and not 9front? I’ve tried 9front before. Steve Lord summed up my feelings well: While [Richard Miller] saw 9Front as a fork, I’d consider significant novel innovation versus a filling the base userland with cruft as a key distinction between fork and distribution....
This is mostly my thoughts on Plan 9 in general, but it’s based on my experience with 9front. I like the emphasis on empowering users to build solutions to their problems. “There isn’t a command to do that, but you can do it yourself very easily.” shell command line history roll your own: fn history {grep ‘^term%’ /mnt/wsys/text|sed -e ’s/^term%//’} 1 Emphasis on distributed computing is very cool. Heterogenous architectures...
I made a game in 0 hours! Check it out: The end of Daylight Saving Time in the fall is the perfect time to make a game. I started at 1:59 (CDT) and ended at 1:59 (CST). I made a game in no time at all! Unfortunately, it’s a stretch to call what I made a game. This was my first time doing the 0h game challenge, and 0 hours is not a very long time to make a game....