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#(This page is not updated with trivia, for other news about Plan 9,
#Inferno and related technologies see [NineTimes |
#http://ninetimes.cat-v.org])
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#SSH REVERSION
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#Bare `ssh' is now ssh1. ssh2 is still available as `ssh2'.
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#- 11 February 2014
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#RENUMBERING OUTSIDE MACHINES
#
#We're about to change the IPv4 addresses of our outside machines
#(from 204.178.31.x to 135.104.24.y). There may be outages, we'll try
#to keep them brief.
#
#IPv6 addresses will follow.
#
#- 19 November 2013
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#NEW PORT: ROUTERBOARD RB450G (MIPS32)
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#/sys/src/9/rb contains a port to the Mikrotik Routerboard RB450G.
#
#- 24 July 2013
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#NEW PORT: RASPBERRY PI
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#/sys/src/9/bcm contains Richard Miller's port to the Raspberry Pi
#model B. See words in that directory.
#
#- 25 Jan 2013
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#NEW PC BOOTSTRAPS
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#9pxeload and 9load have replacements built from kernel source. They
#should appear over the next few days.
#
#- 10 May 2012
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#NEW ARM PORT: TRIMSLICE
#
#/sys/src/9/teg2 contains a port to the multi-core v7-architecture
#Compulab Trimslice. See _announce in that directory.
#
#- 1 May 2012
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#PC ACPI SUPPORT
#
#The kernel source on sources now contains minimal ACPI support in
#the pc port. It's just enough to enable cores not described in the
#MP table, but assumes the basic sanity of the MP table's interrupt
#routing entries. Only the pccpu configuration includes it by default.
#
#This is no help to systems that have no MP table at all, such as
#those built from Intel's ``legacy-free'' motherboards, alas.
#
#- 11 October 2011
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#PLAN 9 APPLYING TO GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE
#
#Plan 9 is again applying to participate in [GSoC]. Our application
#is in and we're now awaiting the decision of the fine folks at
#Google, on March 18th.
#
#- March 11, 2011
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#SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PLAN 9
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#[IWP9 2011 | http://iwp9.org] will be held October 20—21 in Madrid,
#Spain, hosted by [Francisco Ballesteros | http://lsub.org/who/nemo]
#of Rey Juan Carlos University.
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#FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PLAN 9
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#[IWP9 2010 | http://iwp9.quanstro.net] will be held October 11—13 in
#Seattle, WA, USA, sponsored by the US Dept. of Energy.
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#ARM PORTS
#
#A CPU server port for the Sheevaplug and Openrd-client has been
#available in /sys/src/9/kw for a few months. USB support is now
#working, as of today, in part due to the efforts of [Professor
#Francisco Ballesteros | http://lsub.org/who/nemo].
#
#A new port for the IGEPv2 board is available, starting today, and
#Rae McLellan of Bell Labs deserves thanks for helping to decrypt
#what passes for hardware documentation these days. This port is
#being made available now primarily as a basis for GSoC students; we
#hope it will improve. USB is not yet working.
#
#- 23 April 2010
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#ABACO
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#The lightweight web browser abaco is now distributed as part of the
#stock Plan 9 distribution.
#
#- July 30, 2009
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#NEW USB STACK
#
#Thanks to a mountain of hard work done by [Professor Francisco
#Ballesteros | http://lsub.org/who/nemo] of Rey Juan Carlos
#University, we now have a [greatly-modernized USB stack |
#http://9fans.net/archive/2009/05/186], including support for EHCI
#(USB 2.0) and improved support for USB mice, keyboards, and storage
#devices during booting. Thanks are due to Nemo for doing the work
#and to Geoff for integrating it into the distribution.
#
#- May 26, 2009
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#FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PLAN 9
#
#IWP9 2009 will be held October 21—23 in Athens, Georgia, USA, hosted
#by Coraid.
#
#The home page is [here | http://iwp9.quanstro.net].
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#SOURCES BROWSING REINSTATED
#
#After a hiatus of about two months, sources browsing via HTTP has
#been provisionally re-enabled. If it is overused and bogs down our
#web server, it will go away again.
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#THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PLAN 9
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#! From: spyros lalis <lalis@inf...>;
#! Subject: [9fans] next iwp9
#! Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:07:28 +0200
#!
#! Dear 9fans,
#!
#! With the initiative of Francisco Ballesteros and
#! Sape Mullender, a time and a place have been set
#! for the next International Workshop on Plan 9.
#!
#! IWP9 will be held on October 30 and 31 in Volos, Greece.
#! (located by the sea, between Athens and Thessaloniki)
#
#The home page is [here | http://iwp9.inf.uth.gr].
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#VENTI UPGRADE
#
#The newer version of venti (our block store) previously known as
#nventi has been promoted to be the standard venti. The distribution
#and sources are now up to date.
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#SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PLAN 9
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#On the 20th anniversary of Plan 9's creation:
#
#! Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:15:28 -0400
#! From: Sape Mullender <sape@huygens.org>
#! To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
#! Subject: [9fans] 2nd International Workshop on Plan 9
#
#! We have started preparations to host the Second very International
#! Workshop on Plan 9 at Bell Labs MH in December of this year, almost
#! certainly Monday December 3 and Tuesday December 4.
#
#The call for papers is [here | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/iwp9].
#
#For directions to Bell Labs MH, see [here |
#http://netlib.bell-labs.com/where/].
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#PLAN 9 AT THE GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE 2007
#
#Plan 9 from Bell Labs is participating in the [Google Summer of Code
#| http://code.google.com/soc/], see [gsoc.cat-v.org |
#http://gsoc.cat-v.org] for more information.
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#KERNEL CHANGES AND VESA SUPPORT
#
#VESA video support has been added to the default distribution and
#the kernel has new PC MMU code that has a cleaner separation of
#virtual and physical addresses, which should address the various
#mmukmap2 panics that people have reported over the years.
#
#To boot one of these new kernels you will need to copy the new
#/386/9load to your 9fat or floppy disk so that it can cope with the
#new kernel load address. (It will still handle the old ones too.)
#
#The pc kernels use the BIOS E820 memory map when available rather
#than poking at each megabyte until they decide there's no more. If
#you have a system where this causes problems, you can put
#"*noe820scan=" in plan9.ini, and then please LET US KNOW so we can
#try to fix them.
#
#There is also a new driver sdmv50xx for the Marvell 88SX5040 family
#of SATA cards. Thank you to [Coraid | http://www.coraid.com/].
#
#If you see any problems mail 9fans ([mailing lists]) or submit
#patches ([how to contribute]).
#
#[uriel] - Thu Dec 15 2005 - from posts by [rsc]'s to 9fans:
#[original announcement |
#http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/1c487d634fee2e57],
#[update |
#http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/5894c18258c5e3a2?dmode=source].
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#PLAN 9 LIVES ON
#
#[Peter Salus |
#http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9846/ur0508l/ur0508l.html],
#and later Slashdot, broke the news that Dept. 1127, the Computing
#Science Research Center at Bell Labs and the birthplace of Unix and
#Plan 9, has been broken up by Bell Labs management. The various
#members will be reabsorbed into two or three other departments in
#the latest internal reorganization.
#
#Sape Mullender wrote to 9fans to reassure that Plan 9 work continues:
#
#! 1127 ceased to exist some time ago. The department was renamed and got a
#! much longer number which, of course, I can no longer remember. The current
#! split of what's left of 1127 is not considered to be a big deal by most
#! members of the department. There have always been many interdepartmental
#! collaborations, so 1127 has always been more of a management entity than a
#! group/club/fraternity.
#!
#! [...]
#!
#! Plan 9 is alive and reasonably well as our current vehicle for wireless
#! systems research. Plan 9 has gone embedded (but rest assured, all our
#! wireless software runs in user space, using Plan 9's real-time scheduler to
#! make sure it runs when it needs to.
#!
#! Using Plan 9, wireless code becomes useful in a fraction of the time that
#! code can be made to run on all those commercial embedded operating systems
#! (which I do not care to mention) and also much quicker than on Linux which I
#! am sorry to say is just too large and illegible.
#
#Releases will continue with their usual regularity.
#
#[uriel] - August 19, 2005 (updated by [rsc] - October 12, 2005)
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#LIBRE SOFTWARE MEETING SLIDES
#
#The slides form Charles Forsyth talk at [Libre Software Meeting
#2005] are online:
#
# * Plan 9 slides: [http://www.9con.org/rml/slides/title.html]
# * 9P slides: [http://www.9con.org/rml/slides/title.html]
#
#And as an extra, the paper [The Ubiquitous File Server in Plan 9 |
#http://www.9con.org/rml/servers.pdf]
#
#[uriel] - August 2, 2005
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#NEWS NEWS
#
#As agreed during WTH, a wiki page to collect the news from the Plan
#9 community has been created, feel free to post news items at the
#top of this page.
#
#[uriel] - August 1, 2005
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