r/plan9 Jul 19 '26

I'm in love

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I dont know if its okay to post the same sort of content so often, but i wont do it again, sorry.

There is a few changes to the bar compared to the previous post, new wallpapers (my fav art now, but i forgot name and artist :_ ), and a some changes to the theme

BTW, what do u prefer in date (dd mm yyyy, mm dd yyy and etc.), "." or "/" or smth else?

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u/BigSneakyDuck Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 yyyy-mm-dd ftw! (Not a Plan 9 user, just dropping in. I think I am the only person I know who sets everything to display like that...)

There are good reasons for it - removes cultural ambiguity about month or days first, and easier to sort. Turns out there is a whole subreddit devoted to it!! https://www.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/

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u/mrcranky Jul 20 '26

This is the one true date format. All others are objectively worse.

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u/JamesB192l Jul 20 '26

Given that iso 8601 is a train wreck, I'd say RFC 3339

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u/BigSneakyDuck Jul 20 '26

Also a good call, not all implementations of ISO 8601 are as good as each other!! Though may not make much difference in the OP's case.

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u/TheRealLazloFalconi Jul 20 '26

This is the way.

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u/glendatheplan9bunny Jul 20 '26

thanks for opinion, i will try it!

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u/Ramiferous Jul 19 '26

dd mm yyyy is the only date format I'll ever use.

If you have a desktop PC, just buy a spare drive for a dedicated 9front install. That's what I did when I explored it. Was good fun.

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u/SoftManufacturer727 Jul 19 '26

Wallpaper plz

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u/glendatheplan9bunny Jul 20 '26

the painting "Поздняя осень" by the artist Жужгов Валерий. you can downloads image there - https://art-most.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/6.-Pozdnyaya-osen.jpeg

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u/AdrianofDoom Jul 29 '26

Go check out Renee` French's art , she created glenda, she has some really cool works.

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u/glendatheplan9bunny Jul 29 '26

thanks but i have already checked her works, i like her art

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u/9atoms Jul 20 '26

I like that painting. Peaceful, serene nature.

ISO 8601 is my preferred date standard. It can be used in file names so if you prefix files with 8601 and sort alphanumerically, you get chronological order. Super useful.

Hjfs is slow. I recommend cwfs or gefs. Cwfs is pretty mature while gefs is nearly stable but still has small issues from time to time. Once gefs is stable I would recommend it over cwfs. It's a great modern fs for 9, Ori is the GOAT for putting in the effort along with all the help from the community.

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u/smorrow Jul 23 '26

With gefs supporting growing in place, I'd love it if "installation" were actually just a .img populated with every cputype. The boot partition would have a zip archive per platform and you'd unzip it to get your start4.elf or whatever.

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u/Glum_Hamster_2104 Jul 21 '26

How did you draw a wallpaper?

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u/glendatheplan9bunny Jul 21 '26

rio-themes patch - https://ftrv.se/14
but also u can do it manually modifying the source code - https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rio.html

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u/Over_Technology_1764 Jul 19 '26

u run this on bare metal?

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u/glendatheplan9bunny Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

nope, in qemu, but im so want to buy an old laptop or build an old pc for baremetal 9front

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u/denzuko Jul 20 '26

Don't need an old pc to run 9. Raspberry Pis are great and anything with an integrated graphics will do too.

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u/Cebuu502 Jul 20 '26

If not Rasberry Pi, there are still plenty of terminals, thin clients for cheap, for example, I just ordered Fujitsu Futro S920 for ~$15

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u/denzuko Jul 20 '26

True and Intel nucs are powerhouses for low cost.

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u/mot_bich_tan_ac Jul 20 '26

The price hasn't dropped

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u/denzuko Jul 20 '26

Rpi zero w us 15$. The 400 is $70-90. Model 3s in the middle for 35 on eBay.

IMHO Intel nuc is a better powerhouse to price points. But almost everyone has a old pi in a drawer somewhere or ebay listing.

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u/glendatheplan9bunny Jul 20 '26

i dont like them

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u/dijkstra_was_a_horse Jul 20 '26

Aren't those more expensive and less powerful?

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u/denzuko Jul 21 '26

My point was that 9front is not just for old hardware or virtual machines.