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drawterm brings 9front Plan 9 to Android phones

Original: Uplink established: 9front in your pocket: drawterm on Android Inspired by a tiny note from Sigrid on ftrv.se: how to bu

A guide explains how to build drawterm on an Android phone and connect to 9front, the Plan 9 fork, without needing a PC. Written after a short note by developer Sigrid on ftrv.se, it covers what Plan 9 is, running the rio window environment on a phone, and sharing a phone's files to the system. The niche Unix community is sharing it as a fun example of old research OS living on modern mobile hardware.

Why now: Niche systems enthusiasts are excited about running the Plan 9 operating system directly on an Android device.

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• Uplink established: 9front in your pocket: drawterm on Android Inspired by a tiny note from Sigrid on ftrv.se: how to build drawterm on an Android phone and connect to 9front without touching a PC. Plus what Plan 9 is, running rio on your phone, sharing your phone’s files over… · pablo@murad.social · 1

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