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Subject: Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions
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On 11/22/2011 10:46 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> If you're serious about booting a 64-bit os you need NIX. But you're
> not going to get graphics.

To which, on 11/22/2011 11:00 AM, erik quanstrom responded:
> today's nix is quite raw.  unless you're working on nix itself,
> you'll be happier with plan 9.

Is NIX the only distribution for amd64, then?  I just want to play
around in user space: learn Go, use Unicode in C, &c., &c.  Would I be
better off using a 32-bit distro?

—Joel