From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <13426df10911231653j4324340k5d942df3be737350@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:10:14 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df10911231710w6154fb6l51aa0727c7dc8c6f@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Where can i get teh code of the Paln 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9f057cc4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: >> I'll put up a youtube movie in the next while, but there is a video of >> iwp9 I think on the subject. > > And for those of us using only Plan9 to troll the Interweeb, isn't there > a one paragraph text summary someplace? Sorry. It is a tinycorelinux USB stick somewhat (but not much!) customized with a 9vx installation. It runs really well on old, small systems and really fast on new ones. I included 9vx, the vx32 mercurial tree, and mercurial and gcc toolchain so you can update 9vx, hack the source, and build a new 9vx kernel. Thus, you've got a small (well, < 1G anyway; a cheap USB stick nowadays) image that gives you a full Plan 9 environment but works on almost any hardware. ron