Plan9
My fascination with unixes(unices ?) and other systems that merely resemble it have led me to trying out some obscure operating systems and this one is no exception, touted as a operating system to take the linux philosophies such as “everything is a file” to its absolute maximum
plan 9 is a research operating system from bell labs that was supposedly the successor to unix,it had different ideas of how an operating system should function, this is clearly shown by its components, from the window manager rio, a minimalist window manager that only gave the user the minimun needed to use the damn thing, with its color scheme, a stark white and teal combination of color and its editor acme that can also be used as a file manager
My workflow
How to move fast in bash 1. Use an autojumper to move between directories An autojumper caches visited directories in its database and allows for direct jumping to known directories eliminating the need to type out the full path.I useone called zoxide, but they are may others worth trying out.
it has some sort of fuzzy pattern matching and allows me to type only part of the name of the directory zoxide demo
Move to Wayland
In my previous linux setup blogpost i said i might switch to wayland from the aging Xorg, and the vulnerabilities that were found in Xorg weeks prior have fasttracked that switch and over the weeked i moved to sway.Sway being the most mature wayland compositor won me over, i had said that maybe will try hikari but have been desuaded by the lack of documentation. Sway is familliar to me since its a fork of i3, i have used i3 for a while in the past and the setup for both is simillar save for a few things which makes sense only on i3(xorg) i have had to find alternatives to my programs that depend on x, for example xclip, dmenu, sxhkd etc wont work on wayland but alternatives are available and work just as well
Playing With Openbsd
Photo by Allen Ngon UnsplashWhat is openBSD Openbsd is a unix like operating system with a strong focus on security and also emphasizes standardization and corectness, correctness is ensured by extensive auditing of the source,making sure that there are no bugs to exploit.Their website says that openbsd has had “Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time! “, this goes to show how secure it is.