I think it's officially a port of Plan 9's kernel to the vx32 stuff, so it's not precisely the same as running a Plan 9 box natively, or in another emulator, but it is indeed quite a feat, and "close enough" that most people won't notice.
Personally, I'd love to be able to completely replace drawterm with 9vx, but for some reason I still have a little trouble with that setup (in fact I've not finished setting up my CPUFSAUTH server yet, so really I'm the reason for that).
Another interesting project would be an Inferno based drawterm :-)... but I'd be lying if I said I had any time for that kind of fun.
Dave
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Sam Watkins
<sam@nipl.net> wrote:
I just installed 9vx under Linux on my eee pc, it's a delight to be able to run
2 or 3 instances of plan 9 with no bother under Linux! I can't really run Plan
9 as my main OS at the moment, but it seems there's not a big performance hit
to run it in 9vx.
I want to say "thanks!" to Russ for packaging this up (and to the plan 9 devs
of course), and I want to suggest that there should be a link to 9vx on the
main plan 9 website. I suppose most of the people who are interested in Plan 9
would be Unix / Linux users like me, it's a very good way to try or use it for
those people.
Sam