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Plan 9 9front at SDF

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SDF User Contributed Tutorial (wiki; about)

Mouse Button Identification

x	from the left button to the right button:	1, 2, 3
x	from the left button to the right button:	A, B, C

button identifier
:1.	:2.	:3.

button identifier
:A.	:B.	:C.

Plan 9, plan9front, Boot Camp

Unspecified mice detail
- Serial
- PS/2
- USB
- Roller Ball
- Optical

Part Number ¹⁾	Description ²⁾
M-CAD01UBBK	Wired – 3 button mouse user manual	external link ³⁾
M-CAD01DBBK	Wireless – 3 button mouse user manual	external link ⁴⁾
M-S3C	button layout – 5 button mouse user guide	external link ⁵⁾
DY651A	Vintage – 3 button mouse
M-CQ38	Vintage – 3 button mouse
PD49B	Vintage – 3 button mouse
M-UVDEL1	Vintage – 3 button scroll-wheel mouse ⁶⁾
X08-70385	Vintage – 3 button IntelliMouse scroll-wheel ⁷⁾ mouse
31P7405	Vintage – 3 button ScrollPoint ⁸⁾ mouse
MO09BO	Vintage – 3 button ScrollPoint ⁹⁾ mouse ¹⁰⁾
none ¹¹⁾ ¹²⁾	Vintage : serial and PS/2 mouse ¹³⁾
none ¹⁴⁾ ¹⁵⁾	Vintage : keyboard PS/2 to USB active adapter ¹⁶⁾	caveat emptor
DX-WRM1401 ¹⁷⁾	Vintage : DX-WRM1401 PAW3515 ¹⁸⁾ ¹⁹⁾ ²⁰⁾

Index

/plan_9_9front/Index/Preliminary_index_card/

SDF Boot Camp 9p.sdf.org resource
 
https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=boot_camp_9p_resource
 
9front - Plan9front
 
http://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=vps_-_9front
 
http://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=playground:vps_-_9front_plus
 
Plan 9 - Plan 9 from Bell Laboratories
 
http://sdf.org/?tutorials/VPS_Plan9
 
Plan 9 - rc
 
http://sdf.org/?tutorials/Plan_9_rc
 
Plan 9 - Programming
 
http://sdf.org/?tutorials/Plan_9_C
 
https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=plan_9_go_programming
 
https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=plan_9_9front#programming

9front - Plan9front

x	SDF Boot Camp 9p.sdf.org resource:	SDF User Contributed Tutorial (wiki; about)
x	plan9front on an SDF VPS:	SDF User Contributed Tutorial (wiki; about)
x	plan9front additional topics (prototype):	SDF User Contributed Tutorial (wiki; about)
x	Virtual Private Server Service at SDF, including Plan 9	^{for reference}

Plan 9 from Bell Laboratories

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Plan 9 on SDF VPS:

Plan 9 on SDF VPS (html; about)

^{html update needed}

Plan 9 - rc

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Plan 9 Rc Survival Guide:

Plan 9 Rc Survival Guide (html; about)

Plan 9 - Programming

x	Plan 9 C Programming:	Plan 9 C Programming (html; about)
x	mkfiles, ARGBEGIN, and custom print format verbs:	Self Guided Discoveries
x	effectively read and write to file descriptors:	Self Guided Discoveries
x	Plan 9 Go Programming:	Initial Setup on 9p.sdf.org

Plan 9 Boot Camp

SDF periodically runs a Plan 9 Boot Camp which is open to anyone with an SDF user account. These Plan 9 Boot Camps are announced on mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF ²¹⁾, plan9-l, or bboard ²²⁾. The Plan 9 Boot Camp events are typically seasonal quarterly occurrences that run for 3 months.

In 2009 SDF moved to running 9xen-pae thanks to work done at Sandia/Los Alamos. Since then plan9front has made significant improvements and SDF moved to using plan9front pc64 exclusively in 2020.

In 2021 SDF announced a complement amd64 plan9front server for use with the SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp.

x	Visit mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF for the Plan 9 Boot Camp ²³⁾ 2023	announced July 24, 2023
x	An online SDF Plan9 Boot Camp Registration is available.	Fall Camp: September 22, 2023
x	SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp 9p communication resources	(please ask for help)

Activities of the SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp include:

x	[:!:] ²⁴⁾ The 2023 Fall Plan 9 Boot Camp challenges are taking place on the 9p.sdf.org server, 9p notes are located here. [:!:] ²⁵⁾
x	Details on any of the following mini-projects can be expanded into their own wiki sections, or in separate tutorials. Some of the mentioned mini-projects may overlap with content from the earlier legacy, or wiki, tutorials.

Discoveries

x	Installation or pre-generated ²⁶⁾ Plan 9 instance under Xen
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ²⁷⁾ ed, network configuration
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ²⁸⁾ drawterm (from your computer), rio and stats
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ²⁹⁾ acme, sam, abaco, mothra and man
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³⁰⁾ mapdemo, catclock, juggle and tetris
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³¹⁾ 9front and contrib via ftpfs
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³²⁾ mailing list and faces	FACE OFF NEINBOOK! ready
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³³⁾ riot, picker and topng	You've got THE LOOK! ready
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³⁴⁾ bboard, castor and finger	^{bboard -p}
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³⁵⁾ Unicode, UTF-8, and fontviewer
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³⁶⁾ broke, ps, and slay
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³⁷⁾ calendar, topic and backup
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³⁸⁾ function, reply and prompt
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ³⁹⁾ factotum, delkey, and password

Programming

Selected User homepages for Plan 9 abaco, or mothra, browser pagesource examples.

x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ⁴⁰⁾ mkfiles, ARGBEGIN, and custom print format verbs ⁴¹⁾ ⁴²⁾	User homepages ⁴³⁾
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ⁴⁴⁾ effectively read and write to file descriptors ⁴⁵⁾ ⁴⁶⁾	User homepages ⁴⁷⁾
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ⁴⁸⁾ none supports perfectly the most complex(or broken) websites ⁴⁹⁾ ⁵⁰⁾	Community ⁵¹⁾
x	Self Guided Discoveries in: ⁵²⁾ What do people like about Plan 9 ⁵³⁾	Community ⁵⁴⁾

Hardware

The Raspberry Pi 2 B tutorial contains a Nightly ISO Less ambitious headline, offering
SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp participants a resource for studying partially supported hardware.

Selected User homepages for Plan 9 abaco, or mothra, browser pagesource examples.

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Self Guided Discoveries in: ⁵⁵⁾ Known as 'bootes' it was used locally for experimenting with 'plan9' ⁵⁶⁾ ⁵⁷⁾

User homepages ⁵⁸⁾

During the SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp you are encouraged to make screenshots and videos of your Self Guided Discoveries and share your experiences on plan9-l to inspire others to do the same.

x	The SDF Image Gallery wiki page offers a link to additional SDF Social Networks, for possible web based Boot Camp screenshot sharing.

Add a Plan 9 tutorial

* (Add a link to your Plan 9 tutorial here, playground ⁵⁹⁾ namespace tutorials included.)

x	Receiving and sending emails with 9front
x	Text Editing with the sam editor
x	VPS - Plan 9 / 9Front, the namespace, and an interactive terminal

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plan9front additional topics (prototype):

SDF User Contributed Tutorial (wiki; about)

TEA NOTE guide

x	THE TROPICS, a scheduled ⁶⁰⁾ ⁶¹⁾ ~~TEA NOTE guide~~, and the September 24th TEA NOTE at ~~1PM PDT~~ ⁶²⁾		^{20:00 UTC}
x	A URL for the live stream ⁶³⁾ will be posted on `https://sdf.org/plan9`
x	Follow `@sdf@toobnix.org` (fediverse) and `https://www.twitch.tv/sdfpubnix`
x	Plan 9 Boot Camp Tea Note Presentations (SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp community)	^toobnix.org

* (playground:misc event notes are acceptable here. Please exclude any chat dialogue/information. Please exclude images at this time.)

x	Notes from TEA NOTE #N Sunday August 22, 2021 — Note[s] from a member of the audience.

Tip: Search the SDF wiki for tutorials that contain a mentioned subscription keyword.

x	For use by existing ARPA members ⁶⁴⁾ ⁶⁵⁾	Support SDF through recurring donations and memberships (html; annual subscriptions, including MetaARPA, VPN, VPS, VHOST, VoIP, MOTD.ORG, DBA DataBase membership, TWEAK Disk Array Storage Fund, NeinPlan! Support the Plan9 Server, Support SDF's efforts in the fediverse (Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, Matrix, lemmy, teddit, et cetera))
x	For use by anyone interested in SDF.	A review of SDF propaganda materials.

Links

Tutorials

x	Plan 9 on SDF VPS
x	Building Drawterm on NetBSD-5.x/i386
x	A Plan 9 Newbie's Guide [PDF]
x	Plan 9 basics
x	RIT Plan 9 introduction
x	Plan 9 commands for UNIX users
x	Dan Simon Myrland's Plan9 Desktop guide

Utilities

x	Manual pages
x	Rc -- A Shell for Plan 9 and UNIX Systems [PDF]

Videos

x	Narrated Plan 9
x	Plan9 Acme Intro - Part 1
x	Plan9 Acme Intro - Part 2
x	Plan9 Acme Intro - Part 3
x	Acme Mail Demo
x	Acme Editor Demo

Book

x	Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (pdf; external archive)

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The part numbers are provided for Plan 9 Boot Camp search practice.

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The descriptions are intended for Plan 9 Boot Camp communication and discussion.

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The external link is provided for illustration.

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This mouse scroll-wheel is also a reasonable button 2.

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The scrollpoint not a mouse button.

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External scrollpoint reference http://www.ibmfiles.com/pages/scrollpoint.htm

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Consider restricting the browser settings when searching the internet for a DIY concept.

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Adding DIY to the example keyword search will change the results.

¹³⁾ , ¹⁶⁾ , ¹⁸⁾

An example keyword search.

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Adding PDF to the example keyword search will change the results.

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This mouse scroll-wheel is also a button 2, and requires further evaluation.

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Additional scroll-wheel mouse part numbers for further evaluation https://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Mouse_devices

²¹⁾

An SDF web based electronic social networking system.

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bboard is a threaded multi discussion bulletin board.

²³⁾

The beginner to intermediate participants use the 9front Drawterm application to access their Plan 9 Boot Camp rio rc prompt (%).

²⁴⁾ , ²⁵⁾

The [:!:] is interchangeable with a [CAUTION], for the abaco, and mothra browsers.

²⁶⁾ , ²⁸⁾ , ²⁹⁾ , ³⁰⁾ , ³¹⁾ , ³²⁾ , ³⁴⁾ , ³⁵⁾ , ³⁷⁾ , ³⁸⁾ , ³⁹⁾ , ⁴⁸⁾ , ⁵²⁾

Beginner level self guided discovery.

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Intermediate level self guided discovery.

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Redirect to a member homepage on 9p.sdf.org, view about for details.

⁴²⁾ , ⁴³⁾ , ⁴⁶⁾ , ⁴⁷⁾ , ⁵¹⁾ , ⁵⁴⁾ , ⁵⁷⁾ , ⁵⁸⁾

As examples, user homepages are compliant with SDF tutorial guidelines.

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NetSurf is a free, open source web browser.

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Redirect to document page on plan9.io, view wiki for details.

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Redirect to a member homepage on 9p.sdf.org, view sysinfo for details.

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dokuwiki Creating Namespaces

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Presentation is dependent on schedule availability.

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The TEA NOTE notification, or discussion, occurs on plan9-l.

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Check the UTC at the tty $ date -u +%R or local-time at 9p.sdf.org cpu% cp /adm/timezone/US_Pacific /env/timezone && clock or utc time::UnitedStatesPacificTime

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Type 'arpa' at the SDF shell ($ arpa) for details.

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UNIX Shell Account.

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