Rui CarmoMy summer break in 2014 had a theme of sorts, which was “back to basics”. I wanted to forget everything I could about work and fiddle with more interesting stuff – less abstractions, less wondering, more concrete, down-to-earth stuff.
For some reason I gravitated back towards Plan9/Inferno again. Call it dissatisfaction with present day computing, if you will, but I keep looking for something smaller, faster and more efficient than what we use today – so I ended up setting up plan9ports on a Chromebook and fiddling with it.
Come 2020, I revisited this again, updated a few links and dug around a bit more for a few extra resources.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | 2018 | diod | a multithreaded 9P file server written in C |
| Community | 2020 | 9fans topicbox | another watering hole |
| Bitbucket Archive | an archive of Mercurial Bitbucket repos | ||
| 2016 | Richard Miller's Stuff | Which includes the official Raspberry Pi image | |
| Downloads | 2024 | 9Front ISOs | Nightly images for various architectures |
| Hardware | 2025 | avr | Plan 9 C compiler for AVR |
| Libraries | 2016 | go-p9p | A 9p/Styx library for Go |
| lua9p | A 9p/Styx library for Lua | ||
| Ports | 2023 | 9ferno | an amd64/arm64 port of Inferno with partial JIT support |
| Inferno OS for Rasbperry Pi Pico | A port for the Pico in a dedicated branch | ||
| 2016 | Harvey OS | A “Fresh Take on Plan 9”, under active development | |
| 2015 | inferno-rpi | A port of Inferno to the Raspberry Pi, with a few tweaks | |
| node9 | An Inferno-like hosted OS using LuaJIT instead of | ||
| 2014 | 9front | Has a Raspberry Pi image that works better than the ‘official’ port (but does not include | |
| plan9port | Used to be easy to install on a Mac via | ||
| Reference | 2023 | The Fragrant Git Host | a Plan9 (well, mostly 9front)-centric Git host, with a peculiar sense of humor. |
| 2021 | Plan 9 Desktop Guide | by far the most comprehensive (modern) guide I’ve seen | |
| 2014 | Installing a virtualized Plan9 server | Somewhat outdated, but workable | |
| Tools | 2024 | vcrop | a visual image cropping tool |
| u-root/cpu | A port of the Plan9 cpu command | ||
| 2023 | opossum | A Go-based web browser | |
| vdir | a visual directory browser for plan9 | ||
| vim | a vim port for plan9 | ||
| 9Problems | A hackish tiling window manager for Plan9 | ||
| 2021 | edit | a mix of vim and acme | |
| 2020 | acme2k | acme with sane/modern keyboard shortcuts | |
| iredis | an Inferno/Limbo client for Redis |
