Funding & Support:
- Business / Contracting / Donation Enquiries > contact [at] arcan-fe.com
- Ongoing: NLNet grant on a portable A12 viewer: A12-Tools Details
- Ongoing: NLNet grant on peer-to-peer storage, search and computing: A12-Directory Details
- Concluded: NLNet grant on establishing network transparency protocol and discovery: Arcan-A12
Dissemination:
- Technical Overview Presentation (2015-2016) (youtube video)
- 2018 update to the presentation
- Design Slides
- Scripting Slides
- Ph.D Thesis (2013)
- Philosophy (12 principles for a diverging desktop future) (2020)
- Interview with Bjorn Stahl (2024)
Articles (Engine Properties / Uses):
- One Night in Rio: Vacation Photos from Plan9
- AWK for Multimedia
- Crash Resilient Wayland Compositing
- Arcan versus Xorg - Approaching Feature Parity
- Arcan versus Xorg - Feature Parity and Beyond
- Leveraging the 'Display Server' to improve debugging
- Arcan as OS Design
Articles (Accessibility):
Articles (Network Transparency):
Articles (Concluded: Developing a replacement for Terminals):
- Chasing the Dream of a Terminal Free CLI
- The Dawn of a new CLI
- The Day of a new CLI
- Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation
Articles (A new command-line Shell):
- Whipping up a new Shell: Lash#Cat9
- A spreadsheet and a debugger walk into a Shell
- Cat9 Microdosing - Stash and List
- Cat9 Microdosing - Each and Contain
Articles (APIs / development):
- Writing a KMScon/Console like WM using Arcan
- Writing a low-level Arcan client
- Another low level Arcan client: A tray icon handler
- Interfacing with a Stream Deck Device
Engine Components:
Related Projects:
- Pipeworld - Dataflow ZUI Desktop
- Cat9 - Fully asynchronous non-terminal emulator Command Line Shell
- Durden - 'Be all' Desktop Environment
- Safespaces - 3D / VR Desktop
Ongoing Subprojects: