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Always good to check out 9front if you plan on using plan9: new drivers, filesystem, more utilities.

Homepage: https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/

Releases: http://9times.cat-v.org/




With such fun utilities as...

    bullshit(1) (print out a stream of bullshit)
    feminize(1) (replace sexist remarks)
    theo(1) (print out insults from Theo de Raadt)
    troll(1) (automated trolling) # same as theo(1) it looks like
derp looks useful.


Things like that they should call it stormfront instead of plan9front.


Troll(1) works without even running it



Watch the video on that homepage. It is fantastic. Clarke and Dawe still make videos like that.


Thankyou. Glad to see them getting some international recognition. Absolute geniuses.

For anyone not familiar, they have been the stalwarts of Australian political satire for decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clarke_(satirist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Dawe

http://mrjohnclarke.com/projects/clarke-dawe

https://www.youtube.com/user/ClarkeAndDawe

http://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/clarkeanddawe/ (may not work outside Australia.)


I still have the VHS collection of their series, The Games. This was a pre-Sydney 2000 Olympics comedy satire.

Classics include the 100 metres sprint track, which was "about" 100 metres long and someone asking how many "smacks" their website received.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Games_%28Australian_TV_seri...



Seconded. 9front is _way_ ahead of vanilla Plan9, although that's a relative statement in such a tradition-bound community.




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