Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9

Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9

[anothy]

//How about running Plan 9 under vmware?

questions about whether that currently _works_ or not
aside, that seems kinda backwards. what i care most
about is Plan 9 - that's what i enjoy using, that's
what i find most productive, that's the environment i
want to code and design for. it seems silly to put it
under emulation (as good as vmware may be, i refuse
to believe it's as good as raw hardware) under
something else i see as an "extra".
-α.

Re[2]: [9fans] X on Plan 9

[matt]

//How about running Plan 9 under vmware?

acn> questions about whether that currently _works_ or not
acn> aside, that seems kinda backwards.

I tired to get it to boot with bochs to no avail.
from www.bochs.com :

"Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the
emulation including Linux, Windows'95, DOS, and recently Windows NT 4"

it runs on a load of platforms

from the documentation

 * Unix/X11:
     * BeOS:
       Win32. You can compile with either the MS Visual C++ 5.0 or GNU-Win32
       environments.
     * OS/2:
     * Macintosh:
     * FreeDOS for Bochs: David Batterham drbatter@socs.uts.edu.au also offers
       information on running FreeDOS inside of bochs. You can download a disk image with
       a pre-installed copy of FreeDOS, a completely free DOS-like operating system.


might be interesting project for someone to port and then run win95
under plan9!


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 matt                            mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk

Re[2]: [9fans] X on Plan 9

[David Lukes]

> I tired to get it to boot with bochs to no avail.
     ^^   Freudian slip?:-)
> from www.bochs.com :

> might be interesting project for someone to port and then run win95
> under plan9!

<sickness-warning>
For those with a strong stomach and a burning desire to support more hardware,
this would also provide a way to poke around devices
that have a win95 driver but no documentation/willing-manufacturer,
with a view to writing drivers

I seem to remember this approach has been used by someone
writing a Linux driver,
although I can't remember whether the attempt was actually successful ...
</sickness-warning>

	Dave.

[9fans] HELP!

[Dave Iafrate - CSCI/F1997]

Im on the virge of finishing, i think, the installation across four
computers but i am encountering a minor problem.

On the terminals i cannot log in without using the none username.
after i do a new user i cant use that.

How do i create a password for new user?
is this the problem

when i enter the password it says ?nomatch

thanks


On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, David Lukes wrote:

> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:18:03 +0100
> From: David Lukes <davel@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk>
> Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] X on Plan 9
>
> > I tired to get it to boot with bochs to no avail.
>      ^^   Freudian slip?:-)
> > from www.bochs.com :
>
> > might be interesting project for someone to port and then run win95
> > under plan9!
>
> <sickness-warning>
> For those with a strong stomach and a burning desire to support more hardware,
> this would also provide a way to poke around devices
> that have a win95 driver but no documentation/willing-manufacturer,
> with a view to writing drivers
>
> I seem to remember this approach has been used by someone
> writing a Linux driver,
> although I can't remember whether the attempt was actually successful ...
> </sickness-warning>
>
> 	Dave.
>

Re[2]: [9fans] X on Plan 9

[matt]

I've not tried it on plan9 but I have used weirdX which is a java
XServer

www.jcraft.com/weirdx

it's gpl

as for IM clients well there's Jabber which will communicate with ICQ,
Yahoo IM, AIM & MSN as well as native clients

www.jabber.com

another benefit is the server is available so you can install it at
LAN level and not depend on outside servers. It uses XML as it's
message format so rich text & html etc. all possible as well as much
other stuff - I think the buzz word is "extensible". It's open source (I couldn't find which license but it
says open source all over the place and VA-Linux is something to do
with it).


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Best regards,
 matt                            mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk