From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44917798.7010308@lanl.gov> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:07:04 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: csant , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Inferno on OLPC? (was Re: [9fans] *poof*) References: <89246a384ad5419af371bd18f33a692d@9netics.com> <447F39E6.4040109@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6aea8f1e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 csant wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:03:02 +0200, Ronald G Minnich > wrote: > >> I'd like to see if somebody wants to put inferno on OLPC. But I lost >> track of forsyth, who could do it in maybe 15 mins or so. Darn! > > > Honestly, has this ever been proposed? Or even tried? Wouldn't Plan 9 > or Inferno be an ideal solution to the limited resources available? > /c I have proposed it. There's just a ton of apps that people like that you don't get with inferno or plan 9, the big one being a word-like document program. That said, the size and amount of eye candy for OLPC is going to be a heavy load for that machine. The other issue is that, evidently, you can't build inferno under inferno. ron