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Finally had the whole weekend off from work, huzzah! Yesterday, I spent some time working on `anotherplan` and this morning I decided to try my hand at connecting to 9grid. After following the instructions, I got connected!
connected to the Grid from my 9front VM.
instructions to connect to the Grid.
In the above screenshot, you can see a `chat` window, the `acme` editor showing the contents of a shared fileserver, and the `mothra` browser displaying the local wiki. The Grid is basically a collaborative computing environment for Plan 9. Not terribly different from, say, SDF.
More info about the Grid on their wiki.
Connecting is pretty straightforward if you're already running 9front.
First grab a copy of the `gridstart` script:
cd $home/bin/rc hget http://ants.9gridchan.org/scripts/gridstart > gridstart chmod +x gridstart
After that, just run `gridstart` to spawn a new `rio` window and connect to the Grid or `gridstart -t` to do the same, but over TLS.
Another approach would be to run the Grid's live CD, ANTS/9front:
I'm really fascinated by any sort of collaborative computing environment. It's what drew me to SDF and circumlunar in the first place, after all! I'm pretty excited about the Grid in particular, partly because it's a place of congregation for Plan 9 users, partly because I want to share software with other folks on Plan 9.
Sigrid's "Software" page is a pretty good starting point for exploring user software for Plan 9:
The Grid seems to be set up with sharing in mind. Connecting doesn't just present you with a chat interface. `9fs griddisk` mounts a shared filesystem at `/n/griddisk`. Sharing is as easy as copying your files using the `cp` command. Everything is instantly shared both with other users with `/n/griddisk` mounted and via the wiki's web interface. Thus, `/n/griddisk/kvothe/index.html` can be accessed by anyone at:
http://wiki.9gridchan.org/incoming/kvothe/index.html
That's all for now! Until next time, be well!
kvothe.
