From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620604050834x758eb82dp209ef5003416e444@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:34:25 -0700 From: "Jack Johnson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Mac Mini x86? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 303b9d90-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/5/06, Daniel Soderstrom wrote: > Can Plan 9 be installed on a x86 Mac Mini? I'd like to have a play > with Plan 9, but don't want a ugly bitsa PC taking up the space. I > should be able to do everything remotely on the Plan 9 box just using > ssh or x windows? Plan 9 runs well in QEMU, and there's a friendly port to OSX that seems to have universal binaries: http://www.kberg.ch/q/ >>From there, you can boot the ISO image directly, do a standard installation, and have the joy of easy access to a Web browser while you're learning how to set it up. :) Performance on an x86 Mac should be pretty good, but I've only tried it on PowerPC. SSH does exist for Plan 9, but the remote X alternatives are VNC and drawterm, as Plan 9 doesn't use X for its native display. Best of luck, -Jack