Projects

Plan 9 from User Space

Port of collection of Plan 9 utilities and protocol implementation to generic POSIX/X11R6 environment. Includes acme editor, factotum authentication agent, venti fs server and clients, rc shell, rio window manager and much more. All programs support UTF-8. Maintained by Russ Cox.

mksh

mksh is the MirBSD Korn Shell, largely similar to the original AT&T ksh, pdksh’s actively developed successor, portable. It includes bug fixes and improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use. It has UTF-8 support and extended ... [More] compatibility to other modern shells. mksh compiles on: MirOS gcc3+pcc+SUNWcc, MidnightBSD gcc3+pcc; BSD/OS gcc1+2; DragonFly,Free/Net/OpenBSD gcc3+4; AIX gcc4+xlC9; DEC OSF/1 v2,ULTRIX 4.5 MIPS, Tru64 4/5.1 CompaqC+gcc2; HP-UX PA-RISC/IA64 gcc3+aCC; IRIX gcc3+MIPSpro; MacOSX,iPhone gcc3/4+llvm-gcc; QNX; Solaris 8/10 gcc3+SUNWcc; Interix gcc+msc; Cygwin gcc; UWIN-NT dmc+msc+Borland; GNU/Linux/kFreeBSD/HURD dietlibc+libc5+µClibc gcc2/3/4+icc+llvm-gcc+nwcc+tcc+TenDRA+llvm-clang; Haiku gcc; Minix3; Android; … [Less]

acme-sac

Acme is a programmer's text editor, shell, and user interface. It runs on a virtualized operating system, Inferno, that runs hosted on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and MacOSX.

Jupp’s Own Editor

Jupp is a fork of JOE’s Own Editor, providing a lot of bug fixes as well as a new resource file implementing an editing mode optimal for programmers.

goblin-9base

This is an attempt at rewriting some of plan9port (http://swtch.com/plan9port/) in Go (http://golang.org. Specifically, this is intended to be a Go based alternative for 9base http://tools.suckless.org/9base. Rather than re-writing the Plan 9 libc, libbio, libregexp, libfmt and libutf, goblin will make use of Go's libraries.

kwalletcli – shell access for KDE Wallet

Command-Line Interface to the KDE Wallet (currently for KDE 3 and KDE 4 both – separate binaries though). Includes supplementary tools: • CLI for pinentry (Aegypten protocol client) • pinentry-kwallet (Aegypten protocol server, for use with GnuPG 2 gpg-agent) • kwalletaskpass ... [More] (ssh-askpass(1) replacement) This tool can be used to defer password storage for a lot of applications, including Gajim, to the KDE Wallet, if you trust it to store them securely “enough” for you then. Patches for pidgin, etc. to use kwalletcli are in preparation. This work has been sponsored by tarent GmbH. [Less]

Shell-Toolkit

Loose collection of fragments of shell scripts and programmes of random usefulness. May or may not work. Intended not so much for direct usage, but more as collection of examples. Aim for “good” code, to raise the overall quality of shell code on the world, which we believe has suffered from ... [More] too many bad tutorials written by beginners for absolute newbies… [Less]