Combine multiple Truetype font files for complete Unicode coverage.

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2026/08/plan-9-emoji.html

Text shaping for Devanagari script using NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf.

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2026/08/plan-9-emoji.html

This is a capture from a project I'm still hard at work on, some of you likely already know what it is.

Color emoji without gradients.

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2026/08/plan-9-emoji.html

Note: Noto Color emoji needs Color Bitmap Data (CBDT) support.

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2026/08/plan-9-emoji.html

I have been working on a tool that uses Plan 9 to mount any local machine as a folder. Any remote machine becomes a folder. There is no need for rsync, scp it is over TLS 1.3 and 9P2000.
Would love your feedback. Link is in the comment.

Hello, i have and issue with plan9: my timezone UTC+5 was not in plan9 installation, so how can i set it now? I selected +5:30 last time because it is the closest to 5:00

Yesterday, I was on-stream with Nichtderweisheit at LinuxGuides.de. Here's the link to the VOD.

The whole video is in German only.

We talked about Plan 9, and I showed a few things on a 9front system, live. During the preparation phase, I was actually kinda surprised that 9front now works almost flawlessly inside Hyper-V (yes, I streamed a Windows desktop to a linux community).

Directions:

https://github.com/dharmatech/get9/blob/main/docs/from-zero-to-legmacs.md

https://github.com/nooga

https://github.com/nooga/let-go

https://github.com/dharmatech/vt-alt

I have files on my 9front machine that i would like to access from my linux machine for inclusion with my regular backup, and am unsure how to accomplish this.

I have no internet at home and no router. i've just connected both machines with an ethernet cable. I can successfully ping each from the other, but do not know which commands to run from that point. i am a programmer, but am not familiar with networking, really, and am quite new to plan9

9front machine:

user: glenda

ip: 192.168.50.1

service: terminal

fs: gefs

linux machine:

pop_os 22.04

ip: 192.168.50.2

i am assuming the linux side will use "mount -t 9p". any advice will be greatly appreciated. if i need to provide more info, please do let me know

UPDATE: got files transferred using drawterm for now, but def doesn't seem like a long term solution. I will be exploring all other suggested options over time. thanks all

https://github.com/nooga/legmacs

https://github.com/nooga/let-go

https://github.com/dharmatech/drawterm

https://github.com/dharmatech/p9qemu

Hello everyone,

A few weeks ago I had made a post (with the same mockup) asking if it was possbile to run 9front on the clockworkpi uConsole, given that it is built around a Raspberry Pi 4 . I managed to flash the image, but as expected nothing happened.

The uConsole needs a specific variety of drivers to work with, both for the display, the keyboard and the speakers. Are there references to write a driver in Plan9 / 9front C ?

legmacs : an emacs-like editor implemented in let-go

let-go : a clojure dialect implemented in go. Supported on plan9.

Does 9front have this driver? I really want to use plan9 on my Thinkpad again but I could never get it working and I’m not even sure 9front has a driver.

Hello, im running 9front on qemu(-audio pipewire,model=ac97) and i have a problem that even if i enable -audio, /dev/audio doesn't appear. I don't know what the reason of that behavior, but maybe i compiled qemu wrong of sum

I'm just getting started with acme installed from plan9port on linux. I've watched a few videos but am having a hard time picking up mouse chords.

Any decent videos explaining mouse chords slowly or other suggestions for learning them?

Are using mouse chords reasonable with a left, scroll wheel, right button mouse. I tend to rest my index finger on the left button and middle finger on the right button, so even the copy/paste requires a fair amount of conscious effort. Can I get away with it with this sort of mouse or do many people find it necessary to switch to a traditional 3 button mouse?

I see some conveniences from using acme over viewing a single buffer at a time in emacs, but definitely miss syntax highlighting.

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2026/07/plan-9-dynamic-html.html

Hey y'all 🙋‍♂️

Here's a fork of 9front drawterm:

https://github.com/dharmatech/drawterm

Why this fork?

Two reasons:

• Builds on Windows using Microsoft Visual C via NMakefile.msvc

  • I.e. no longer need MinGW/cygwin

• Supports no-GUI command execution with -G -c <cmd>

Unless you need -G -c <cmd> support, you should likely stick with 9front drawterm.

HTML font zooming and reflow.

Details: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2026/07/plan-9-dynamic-html.html