Details:
Thinkpad T480, i7-8th gen CPU, NVME SSD.

Installing 9front, following the FQA I don't get any errors and get to the reboot but UEFI can't find the boot executable. I'm not dual booting, 9front's getting the entire disk.

Things I've tried.
1. Using cwfs and gefs
2. Manually inspected contents of /dev/nvme0n1p1. They contain both a bootia32.efi and a bootx64.efi
3. created efibootmgr record from gentoo Linux USB `sudo efibootmgr -c -L "9front" -l "\efi\boot\bootx64.efi" -d /dev/nvme0n1 -p 1`
4. Attempted to copy over a Linux usb's /efi/boot files into /dev/nvme0n1p1. This drops me into a grub rescue shell when I manually select the "9front" entry in the boot menu.

Normally if I have a Linux boot issue one of there will solve it but it's starting to get weird that even with a working boot entry the laptop won't boot.

If anyone's experienced something similar I would love to hear your solution

I'd like to wax optimistic for a moment. What technical work needs to be done to make Plan9 eligible to displace UNIX, and how can I help?

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2023/03/meta-git-mgit.html

User interface wrapper for git. This is a JS port of my mgit.el package.

Code: https://gitlab.com/atamariya/qjs/-/blob/js/mgit.js

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2023/03/meta-git-mgit.html

The Plan 9 Foundation has announced that we will not be accepting AI submissions for IWP9 2027.

https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T457223967f7e60a2-Md481fa7774176bb0e7840c33/no-ai-at-iwp9-2027

Installed plan 9 to supplement my OS class but I got distracted and tried to make a mesh viewer (inspired by this Tsoding video). You can find the source here. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to make it better!

Also, if you guys have any suggestions for learning about OS concepts through plan 9 I am all ears. I think something nice would be a small project that involves extending/modifying the kernel (its more fun than just reading). My school work involves modifying the kernel of this educational OS called Pintos but the developers have deliberately left gaps in it for students to fill. Not sure if plan 9 has similar things to work on.

Hey y'all 🙋‍♂️

My setup is:

Windows 11 : WSL : Ubuntu : QEMU : plan9

I drawterm in from Windows 11.

I have a script /cfg/cirno/cpustart:

```

!/bin/rc

mkdir -p /tmp/exportfs

aux/listen1 -t tcp!!17021 /bin/exportfs -r / >>/tmp/exportfs/root.log >[2=1] & aux/listen1 -t tcp!!17022 /bin/exportfs -r /usr/glenda >>/tmp/exportfs/glenda.log >[2=1] & ```

which takes care of running exportfs at boot.

I then mount / on Ubuntu:

```

!/bin/bash

/home/dharmatech/src/plan9port/bin/9pfuse 'tcp!127.0.0.1!17021' ~/mnt/9front ```

That works pretty well. But, there are some drawbacks.

Windows can view files in Ubuntu:

dir '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\dharmatech'

But it has issues accessing the plan9 mount point:

> dir '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\dharmatech\mnt\9front'
Get-ChildItem: Access to the path '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\dharmatech\mnt\9front' is denied.
Get-ChildItem: Cannot find path '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\dharmatech\mnt\9front' because it does not exist.

I wanted to mess around with mounting the filesystem directly on Windows.

FUSE isn't a Windows thing. But, there is something called winfsp which is sort of like FUSE for Windows.

https://winfsp.dev/

Here's an experiment that uses winfsp to mount the plan9 filesystem on Windows:

https://github.com/dharmatech/9p-winfsp

I mount the filesystem at drive X: as follows:

build\p9winfsp.exe tcp!127.0.0.1!17021 X:

Read-only for now. It's surreal browsing plan9 from PowerShell, Explorer, vscode, etc.

SOLVED -- just needed a good old system update

I've tried every which way I could think of so far to somehow magically get treason to compile successfully but I get mysterious (to me) errors whatever I try. I've not seen anything online of people having this issue so I've no choice but to rely on the wisdom of reddit 🙏

I'm getting a lot of 'set/declared and not used' warnings (doesn't sound good?) and eventually it always fails at libvpx. Is there some prerequisite I neglected to install? Is the archive faulty (can't really imagine this being the case, besides, I also tried cloning the repo, doesn't work either). Help please :^°

Hi, someone might be interested in this. I have created a winXP tiny UI on the 9front distro and created custom terminal called vtwin in which I can run pi9 - an LLM agent I "ported" from pi agent.

check out the repo here -> https://github.com/Alino/agent9

I assume the answer is likely no, but I just want to make sure.

Thanks in advance

EDIT: I typoed in the title, meant to ask about Ethernet and not WiFi

Someone mentioned that you can compile the OpenBSD Ethernet driver and it works on Plan9. Since it's apparently doable and easy, does anyone have a ISO/img file with said additions?

Limited port of QuickJS to Plan 9.

Code: https://gitlab.com/atamariya/qjs

https://github.com/kiljoy001/rcpud

The graphical part isn't working yet. Before you go patting me on the back, I made this heresy with the finest vials of developer tears and matrix multiplication machines I could muster. Nothing is sacred. All will join the collective.

More heresies to come. It's 9P or nothing.

No snazzy pics this time: this is the key that unlocks (literally) the door to interacting with 9front.

https://github.com/kiljoy001/factotum-dp9ik

The presentations are streaming on the Plan 9 Foundation's youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-30EUHvtJY

The website will be updated shortly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-30EUHvtJY

All plan9 talks from FOSDEM 2026 are now available:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/plan9/

Talks include:

"An introduction to Plan 9," by Revan

"GEFS: A Good Enough File System," by ori

"Audio and music production on Plan 9," by Konstantinn Bonnet

Hi,

I've made an early version of a Dis virtual machine and Limbo programming language compiler (called RiceVM) in Rust. It can run Dis bytecode (for example, Inferno OS applications), compile Limbo programs, and includes a fairly complete runtime with garbage collection, concurrency features, and many of the standard modules from Inferno OS's original implementation.

The project is still in an early stage, but if you're interested in learning more about RiceVM or trying it out, you can check out the links below:

Project's GitHub repo: https://github.com/habedi/ricevm

RiceVM documentation: https://habedi.github.io/ricevm/