Using Plan 9--a basic session

This is the low-resolution version--for high-res, get http://digi.nuwen.net/Plan9.mpeg or visit http://vimeo.com/7511980. This is a quick screencast showing the process of connecting to a Plan 9 server via drawterm, then interacting with the system through rio. It demonstrates the rio window system and the acme programmers editor/environment, and gives an idea of the amount of network integration in Plan 9.

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Science & Technology

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• Plan9
• OS
• computer
• Bell
• Labs

[Thanatermesis]

Could be nice if you add these "popups" messages that youtube can do, I have just do it on one of my videos (see "make a complete e17 module in 10 minutes" or something like that on my videos) the other day, could be nice for explaining what are you doing, specially since is not easy to read the chars.

You are the only one that has put a decent video of plan9 in all the entire youtube :), please upload new ones! :)

[slawmasta]

@Thanatermesis You're right; I had posted this before the popups came about. Normally I utterly hate when those things show up, but in this case it makes a lot of sense. I'll look into it.

[sdemon121]

hm, so the drawterm session was started on the actual system? did you started it under qemu or it was actual screenrecord using native utils? .. and I'm like wtf, these fonts are looking like antialiased and aligned per-pixel... and what is the performance of drawterm, is it enough to render 20-30 moveable objects per window (with a mouse supposely)? what's with multi-pointer support since it supports multiple pc's? are there any virtualization solutions like qemu? ... *whacks his skull out*

[slawmasta]

Let me try to answer your questions as well as I can.

The drawterm client was running on a Linux computer so I could connect to a Plan 9 computer running across campus. I used a Linux screencapture program to record it. I do not know/care much about fonts but I do typically hear good things about P9's fonts. Drawterm has always performed well for me, but network latency can make it annoying, so you'll want to boot a real Plan 9 terminal if you're not really close to the server.

[slawmasta]

Not enough room in the previous comment, I'll finish here. I'm not sure what you mean about multi-pointer support; drawterm is just a client application like Remote Desktop or VNC. You use it to connect to a Plan 9 server, which can then connect to other Plan 9 servers in a very simple and clean fashion.

You can run Plan 9 under QEMU; I haven't done it for a while but I don't believe there were any issues with it.

Thanks for the comment!

[n00pster]

thanks for the effort.. it would be of much greater use if you could please provide a tutorial on how to use acme to create/edit/save text and show it step by step so that users new to plan 9 can follow it. Also somehow the text on the screen is not readable..

[slawmasta]

The first time you boot into a new Plan 9 system, it should open Acme with a tutorial on how to use it. If you're using an already set-up system, check /usr/glenda/readme.acme or google for it. I may try to make such a video at some point.

Regarding the blurry text, you really need to download the original file that I link to in the info.

[GathGealaich]

@11XXXShawnXXX11 Well, don't look into the mirror, then.

[celisdelafuente]

@GualasCruz ¿Plan 9 obsoleto? Que no lo conozcas, que no tenga una interfáz "bonita" (como Unity de Ubuntu) y que no estes enterado de que Plan 9 esta vivo y en desarrollo constante. No significa que sea obsoleto o perdedor de ninguna manera, simplemente no es para ti.

[GualasCruz]

jajjaja nomames cuando vi este video me senti en la edad de pieda y pense que los sisteams operativo tanto pueden crecer tanto quedan obsoletos. admiro los vencedores como ubuntu,suse,mandriva .... pero este sistema operativo jamas pense ke existia jajjaja jajajaj

[Antiks72]

Nobody runs this.

[Username93611]

But can it play call of duty?

[adamnew123456]

Nice job, but this could do with a little bit of sound.

[nawkwan]

I wish you could make the annotation boxes stay on a lil longer. Other than that, thanks for giving me a video introduction/demo to Plan 9

[nitturo]

a video about acme-sac is very welcome as well! :)

[11XXXShawnXXX11]

Looks like shit

[Thanatermesis]

Very nice for the tooltips, now is more understandable :)

Im suscribed to your videos now to see if you publish a new demo of plan9, they are very instructive :) specially when showing the unique and special features of plan9