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0 - Introduction to Plan 9
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0.1 - What is Plan 9?
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0.1.1 - Plan 9 is not UNIX
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0.1.1.1 - Plan 9 is not plan9port
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0.1.1.2 - Plan 9 is not Inferno
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0.1.2 - Plan 9 is not a product
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0.1.3 - Plan 9 is not for you
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0.2 - Why Plan 9?
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0.2.1 - What do people like about Plan 9?
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0.2.1.1 - What do you use Plan 9 for?
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0.2.2 - What do people hate about Plan 9?
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0.2.2.1 - What is not in Plan 9
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0.2.3 - Why did Plan 9's creators give up on Plan 9?
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0.2.4 - What is the deal with Plan 9's weird license?
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0.2.4.1 - Richard Stallman hates the Plan Nine license (circa 2000)
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0.2.4.2 - Theo de Raadt hates the Plan 9 license (circa 2003)
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0.2.4.3 - Everyone hates the Plan 9 license (circa 2014)
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0.2.4.4 - PRAISE FOR 9FRONT'S BOLD ACTION RE: LICENSING
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0.3 - Further Reading
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0.3.1 - Plan 9 papers
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0.3.2 - Man pages
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0.3.3 - Web pages
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0.3.4 - Books
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1 - Introduction to 9front
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1.1 - What is 9front?
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1.1.1 - Cirno
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1.2 - On what systems does 9front run?
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1.3 - Why might I want to use 9front?
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1.3.1 - New Features
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1.3.1.1 - New Programs
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1.3.1.2 - New Hardware Support
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1.4 - Is 9front really free?
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1.5 - How can I help support 9front?
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1.6 - Who maintains 9front?
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1.7 - When is the next release of 9front?
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1.8 - What is included with 9front?
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1.9 - Can I use 9front as a desktop system?
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1.10 - Why is/isn't ProductX included?
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1.11 - Fine, where can I get 9front?
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1.11.1 - Mirrors
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1.11.1.1 - 9front.iso
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1.11.1.2 - Mercurial repository
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2 - Getting to know 9front
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2.1 - Web Pages
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2.2 - Mailing Lists
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2.2.1 - Mailing List Archives
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2.2.2 - Other useful mailing lists
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2.3 - Manual Pages
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2.4 - Reporting Bugs
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2.4.2 - How do I get more useful info for developers?
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2.4.2.1 - Take a photo of the panic screen
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2.4.2.2 - Make a stack trace of a crashed process
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3.2 - Known Working Hardware
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3.2.0 - Input Devices
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3.2.0.1 - Mice
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3.2.0.2 - Keyboards
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3.2.2.2 - Integrated
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3.2.2.3 - PCI Express
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3.2.3 - Networking
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3.2.3.1 - Ethernet
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3.2.3.1.1 - Integrated
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3.2.3.1.2 - USB
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3.2.3.1.3 - PCMCIA
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3.2.3.2 - WiFi
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3.2.3.2.1 - Bridge (external)
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3.2.3.2.2 - Mini-PCI
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3.2.3.2.3 - Mini-PCI Express
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3.2.3.2.4 - PCI
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3.2.4.1 - Serial
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3.2.4.1.1 - Integrated
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3.2.5.1 - Acer
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3.2.5.2 - IBM/Lenovo
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3.2.5.2.1 - ThinkPad
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3.2.5.3 - Toshiba
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3.2.5.3.1 - Satellite
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3.3.1.4 - Networking
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3.3.1.4.1 - Linux VDE
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3.3.1.4.3 - Windows TAP
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3.3.1.4.4 - Linux TAP
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3.3.1.6 - Graphics
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3.3.2 - Virtualbox
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3.3.2.1 - Ethernet
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3.3.2.2 - Audio
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3.3.2.3 - Graphics
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3.3.2.4 - Known Working Versions
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3.3.3 - Virtio
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4.1 - Pre-installation Checklist
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4.2 - Creating bootable 9front install media
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4.2.1 - ISO image
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4.2.2 - USB drive
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4.2.2.1 - Creating on Plan 9
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4.2.2.2 - Creating on Linux
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4.2.2.3 - Bootargs
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4.3 - Performing a simple install
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4.3.1 - boot
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4.3.2 - bootargs
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4.3.3 - user
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4.3.4 - vgasize, monitor, mouseport
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4.3.4.1 - Changing screen resolution
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4.3.5 - inst/start
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4.3.6 - configfs
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4.3.7 - partdisk
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4.3.8 - prepdisk
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4.3.9 - mountfs
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4.3.10 - configdist
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4.3.11 - confignet
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4.3.11.1 - dhcp
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4.3.11.2 - manual
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4.3.12 - mountdist
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4.3.13 - copydist
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4.3.14 - sysname
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4.3.15 - tzsetup
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4.3.16 - bootsetup
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4.3.17 - finish
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4.4 - Encrypted Partitions
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5.1 - Why should I build my system from source?
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5.2 - Building 9front from source
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5.2.1 - Update sources
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5.2.1.1 - hgrc
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5.2.2 - Building from source
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5.2.2.1 - Cross compiling
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5.3 - Building an ISO
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5.4 - Common Problems when Compiling and Building
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5.4.1 - Upgrading compilers
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6.1 - Before we go any further
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6.2 - Network configuration
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6.2.1 - Host name
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6.2.2 - Identifying and setting up your network interfaces
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6.2.2.1 - Wifi
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6.2.2.1.1 - Interfaces
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6.2.2.1.1.1 - wavelan
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6.2.2.1.1.2 - wavelanpci
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6.2.2.1.1.4 - rt2860
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6.2.2.1.1.5 - wpi
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6.2.2.1.2 - WPA
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6.2.2.1.3 - Wifi Roaming
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6.2.2.1.4 - Wifi Debug
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6.2.3 - IP address
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6.2.4 - Default gateway
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6.2.5 - DNS Resolution
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6.2.5.1 - Caching DNS server
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6.2.5.2 - DNS authoritative name server
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6.2.5.2.1 - Troubleshooting DNS authoritative name server
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6.2.6 - Network-wide configuration
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6.2.7 - Activating the changes
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6.2.7.1 - NIC
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6.2.7.2 - cs
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6.2.7.3 - dns
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6.2.8 - Verifying network settings
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6.2.8.1 - Checking routes
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6.2.8.1.1 - Adding static routes
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6.2.9 - Setting up your 9front box as a forwarding gateway
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6.2.10 - Setting up aliases on an interface
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6.3 - How do I filter and firewall with 9front?
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6.4 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
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6.4.1 - DHCP client
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6.4.2 - DHCP server
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6.5 - PPP
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6.6 - Setting up a network bridge in 9front
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6.7 - How do I boot from the network?
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6.7.1 - How do I tcp boot?
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6.7.1.1 - Passing arguments to ipconfig at the bootargs prompt
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6.7.2 - How do I boot using PXE?
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7.1 - Plan 9 Services Overview
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7.1.1 - What is the kernel?
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7.1.2 - What is the file server?
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7.1.3 - What is the auth server?
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7.1.4 - What is the cpu server?
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7.1.5 - What is a terminal?
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7.2 - Kernel configuration and maintenance
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7.2.1 - How do I mount the 9fat partition?
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7.2.2 - How do I modify plan9.ini?
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7.2.3 - Kernel configuration file
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7.2.4 - Kernel drivers
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7.2.5 - How do I install a new kernel?
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7.3 - Fileserver configuration and maintenance
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7.3.1 - Adding users
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7.3.2 - Configuring nvram
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7.3.3 - Setting up a listener for network connections
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7.3.4 - Mounting a file system from userspace
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7.4 - Auth server configuration and maintenance
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7.4.1 - Configuring an auth server
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7.4.1.1 - Avoiding an ndb entry for the auth server
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7.4.2 - Adding users
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7.4.3 - secstored
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7.4.3.1 - Adding users to secstore
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7.4.3.2 - Converting from ps9k1 to dp9ik
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7.5 - Cpu server configuration and maintenance
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7.5.1 - Configuring a cpu server
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7.6 - Terminal configuration and maintenance
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7.6.1 - Configuring a terminal
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7.6.2 - Configuring a Terminal to Accept cpu Connections
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7.6.3 - UTC Timesync
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7.7 - Mail server configuration and maintenance
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7.7.1 - smtpd.conf
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7.7.2 - rewrite
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7.7.3 - names.local
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7.7.4 - remotemail
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7.7.5 - SMTP over TLS
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7.7.6 - IMAP4 over TLS
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7.7.7 - Spam Filtering
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7.7.7.1 - ratfs
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7.7.7.2 - scanmail
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7.7.8 - Troubleshooting the mail server
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7.8 - Web server configuration and maintenance
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7.8.1 - ip/httpd
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7.8.2 - rc-httpd
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7.9 - TLS certificates
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8 - Using 9front
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8.1 - rc
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8.1.1 - Prompts
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8.1.2 - /env
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8.2 - rio
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8.2.1 - The Pop-up Menu
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8.2.2 - Window control
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8.2.3 - Text in rio windows
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8.2.4 - Scrolling
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8.2.5 - Mouse Chording
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8.2.6 - Keyboard Shortcuts
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8.2.7 - Color scheme
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8.2.8 - Why is rio like this?
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8.2.9 - tips
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8.2.9.1 - Taking a screenshot
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8.2.9.2 - Prevent console messages from overwriting the screen
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8.3 - Text Editors
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8.3.1 - sam
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8.3.1.1 - Scrolling
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8.3.1.2 - Mouse Chording
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8.3.1.3 - Why does sam have a separate snarf buffer from rio?
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8.3.1.4 - Keyboard Shortcuts
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8.3.2 - acme
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8.4 - Internet
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8.4.1 - Mail
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8.4.1.1 - upasfs
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8.4.1.1.1 - Reading gmail via IMAP
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8.4.1.2 - nedmail
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8.4.1.3 - nupas
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8.4.2 - NNTP
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8.4.3 - IRC
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8.4.3.1 - ircrc
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8.4.3.2 - irc7
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8.4.4 - FTP
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8.4.5 - HTTP
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8.4.5.1 - mothra
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8.4.5.2 - abaco
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8.4.5.3 - hget
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8.4.5.4 - charon
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8.4.5.5 - i
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8.4.6 - SSH
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8.4.6.1 - ssh
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8.4.6.1.1 - sshfs
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8.4.6.2 - ssh2
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8.4.6.3 - scpu
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8.4.6.3.1 - Public Key Authentication
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8.4.6.4 - OpenSSH
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8.4.6.5 - sftpfs
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8.4.6.5.1 - Mounting a remote u9fs share over SSH
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8.4.7 - secstore
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8.4.8 - drawterm
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8.5 - Audio
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8.6 - External Media
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8.6.1 - Mount an ISO9660 CD-ROM
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8.6.2 - Burn a CD-ROM
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8.6.3 - Mount a FAT formatted USB device
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8.7 - Emulation
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8.7.1 - Linux Emulation
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8.7.2 - Nintendo
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8.7.3 - Sega
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8.7.4 - Commodore
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8.8 - Additional Software
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8.8.1 - 9front sources server
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8.8.2 - 9front contrib
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8.8.3 - Other public 9p servers
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8.9 - Bootstrapping architectures not included on the ISO
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8.9.1 - amd64
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8.9.2 - Raspberry Pi
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8.10 - ACPI
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8.10.1 - Enabling ACPI
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8.12 - Revision Control
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8.12.1 - cvs
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8.12.2 - git
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8.12.3 - Mercurial
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8.12.4 - svn
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9.1 - First
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9.2 - Booting
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9.2.2 - Break into a shell
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9.2.3 - Editing plan9.ini
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9.2.4 - Boot media not recognized
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9.2.5 - I moved my hard drive between ports
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9.3 - Graphics
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9.3.1 - Rio fails to start
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9.3.2 - VESA BIOS does not contain a valid mode
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9.4 - Networking
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9.4.1 - Networking is not working
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9.4.2 - Cannot resolve domain names
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9.4.3 - /mnt/web/clone does not exist
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9.4.4 - PCMCIA WiFi stopped working after reboot
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9.5 - USB
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9.5.1 - Devices not recognized or not working
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9.5.2 - System freezes after showing memory sizes
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9.6 - auth
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9.99999999999999999999999999999999999999 - GIVE UP
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J - Junk
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L - Languages
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z - Getting Started With 9front
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