I have always wanted to try out Plan9[1] (the operating system), but have never managed to get it installed on one of my systems. I was excited to find out recently than a fellow traveller of the small internet may be setting up a public server in the future. I am looking forward to it!

What I have read about Plan9 makes it a combination of comfort and utter and complete mystery. It seems that it is more mouse focused than I would prefer, but it also seems _super_ text oriented... which is cool. I know I will miss Vim, but acme seems to have its own thing going on that seems pretty cool.

If all this manages to happen then I think I will try to port Bombadillo[2]. Go supports Plan9 well, but I use some syscalls in Bombadillo that will either need to get modified or removed. I also need to find out if vt100 style escape sequences work in plan9's terminal emulator... I think they do?

This has been the year for switching up operating systems. I have been daily driving Linux for a few years, but this year ran Haiku[3] on my Thinkpad (a secondary system for me) for a few months. Haiku was soooo snappy and polished, but lacked some things I needed (a version of Go from within recent memory was a big one). So I put GhostBSD[4] on the Thinkpad. I have been really happy with GhostBSD and tend to prefer the Thinkpad over my main system now, at least for personal projects, browsing gopher/gemini, etc.

I'd love to hear about people's experiences with more niche OSs if anyone in geminispace wants to post about them. Redox[5] (written in rust) comes to mind as a point of curiosity.

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1. Plan9 (www - wikipedia)

2a. Bombadillo (www)

2b. Bombadillo (gopher)

3. Haiku (www)

4. GhostBSD (www)

5. Redox OS (www)