On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:10 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> <lyndon@orthanc.ca> 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
>
> Excellent! :-)

I've had some odd troubles in the past getting 9vx to behave in all the same
ways as a regular Plan 9 machine, but then I think most of those had been
addressed on 9fans at some point.  Seemed like some of them were around
networking and such.