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Porting Tailscale to Plan 9

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370 points adriangrigore | 2 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mfro ◴[02 Apr 25 15:49 UTC] No.43558049[source]▶
Russ Cox is an absolute legend for committing to this joke.
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pbohun ◴[02 Apr 25 17:17 UTC] No.43558993[source]▶
Someone needs to convince Russ that it would be hilarious to have a full featured web browser in Plan 9.
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fiddlerwoaroof ◴[02 Apr 25 17:22 UTC] No.43559051[source]▶
Doesn’t plan9 support frame buffers over 9p or something like that? You could probably write a wrapper that just forwards a Linux browser to a plan9 window
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moody__ ◴[02 Apr 25 17:24 UTC] No.43559072[source]▶
This has been done already: https://github.com/aiju/jsdrawterm
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1. samtheprogram ◴[02 Apr 25 17:28 UTC] No.43559106[source]▶
This looks like the opposite -- accessing a plan9 system from a web browser?
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2. moody__ ◴[02 Apr 25 17:37 UTC] No.43559173[source]▶
Yes you're correct, my apologies. There has been work on this going the other way as well: https://github.com/michaelforney/wl9. But there's still a lot more than can be done. There are vague plans to test the waters implementing something like this in to our vmx(1).