Your quite right, I wouldn't switch to 9front for that reason, but is nice that 9front does have more secure protocols in place. I stuck with bell labs because the RPI iso was right there I wanted to see the OS from the beginning. Its also why I have the bootable 9legacy USB for my old desktop, but that's sitting around until I can figure out the OS, so then I can get it running how I want on there, and link up the systems so that the desktop acts as a shared fs. On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 2:58 PM hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: > fyi, mothra isn't really *better* than abaco, both support only a > small subset of websites, and not exactly the same subset. that's not > the reason to switch to 9front ;) > > on 9front we use rcpu and rimport > on ball-labs you can only use the insecure cpu and import commands. > > but if you had a central fileserver, and cpu-boot from that, this > kinda comes for free... > > On 10/15/21, joseph turco wrote: > > Nice! I'm still understanding how to use the OS. I can't even get on the > > web as its complaining about DNS servers in abaco (I know mothra is > > preferred but I'm using bell labs plan 9). I need to understand how I can > > get two plan 9 systems to talk to each other, and then able to mount the > fs > > system on my standalone RPI. I guess it will come to me in due time. > > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 1:47 PM Michael Misch > > wrote: > > > >> I went all in on my first foray, and set up discrete fs + auth + cpu + > >> terms, it was fun but wholly unnecessary. Eventually I settled into > >> fs/auth > >> on one, and a cpu server on the side with drawterm/terms. This was all > >> 9front, which has some niceties for networked setups, including cpu > >> listeners for fs/auth to maintain without needing serial/gui/ssh access. > >> > >> On Oct 15, 2021, at 10:31 AM, joseph turco > >> wrote: > >> > >>  > >> Thank you to both of you for the responses. I guess getting deep into > the > >> man pages is how I'll have to go about running things. I'm actually > >> considering taking the OS off my pi, and loading it onto the desktop I > >> have > >> as a CPU/file server. I can get legacy9 to boot on it, I just need to > >> figure out how to get it to work and connect the pi via TCP. I also have > >> though of just leaving the running system on my pi, also load it on the > >> old > >> desktop, and just have both boxes talk to each other. The first idea > >> sounds > >> more fun but I'm unsure. > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 10:09 AM sirjofri > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> 15.10.2021 15:05:25 Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir >>> > A few useful links to get started: > >>> > >>> To add more infos for community stuff and more: > >>> > >>> (Of course, read as much as possible, the man pages, wiki, fqa, > >>> articles, > >>> papers, .... 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