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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:50:08 +0000
From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>,
	Andre Wingor <andrewingor@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno on Plan9
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On Sat, 12/30/17, Andre Wingor <andrewingor@gmail.com> wrote:
> And also ready-made live distributions for launching from USB and
> installing on a desktop with simple copying
> without admins privileges.

I haven't thought about anything along those lines with the
hosted versions, but a while back I did start putting together
a bootable live CD running natively.  Graphics were limited
to standard VGA (640x480x16 IIRC) and I ran out of momentum
when messing around with Ethernet drivers on older laptops.

For a hosted version, as long as you only targeted various
Unices, you could probably have a shell script that figured
out which emu to run based on the output of uname.

BLS