Welcome to Plan 9

ABSTRACT

This document will introduce you to Plan 9 installations at inter9

Connecting

You may connect to Plan 9 thru several ways, namely SSH, drawterm and rcpu; To connect using SSH protocol, you may run the following command:

; ssh rcpu@cloud9p.org

You'll be greeted a session like following:

user[glenda]: mkf
cpu[cloud9p.org]: 
auth[cloud9p.org]: 
password:

If you have made an account in cloud9p.org default values for it are fine, otherwise, change them to your cpu and auth server(s), respectively. Some programs (usually ones which use console -- /dev/cons ) can't be used over SSH. these are fairly rare, with only noteable example being passwd(8).

drawterm

Drawterm is the native Plan 9 way to connect, it offers more features and is more flexiable compered to SSH, some of features are:

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Graphics and audio

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Exporting server and client side resources

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9P channel

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automatically reconnecting without session being dropped (AAN)

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etc...

Drawterm currently supports the following platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, BSDs, Solaris, Android and Web. You can either compile it from source from: git://git.9front.org/plan9front/drawterm. or download a pre-built binary from: https://cloud9p.org/usr/mkf/drawterm.