From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Support for Mac OS X Leopard
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:30:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40709291430r6c2b8327g2c34ed37fee4cf5b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac0a5820709291325x2ad4e5b7je22a3a181d694add@mail.gmail.com>
I´m using both a macbook pro and a macbook regularly.
Plan9 on Parallels works fine, although time does funny things when
you suspend (I do not) and some times parallels crashes (not plan 9) when
you start it.
On 9/29/07, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> On 9/29/07, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > - Can I safely assume I will be able to run Plan9 on a VM like
> > > Parallels on the Mac with OS X Leopard?
> >
> > yes (it doesn't depend on plan9, but rather on Parallels running under Leopard).
> Yeah, that was my thinking too. I dont see any mention of Leopard in
> Parallels website. Not sure how soon Leopard will be supported.
>
> > > - Any idea when plan9port, Inferno, and drawterm will be available for Leopard?
> >
> > right after leopard is out. they run on tiger therefore, there
> > shouldn't be a problem. is there a particular "feature" of leopard
> > you'd like to see plan9/inferno support?
> Not really. I wanted to try Mac but at the same time I didnt want to
> stay with Tiger just because of Plan9/Inferno support. I just want to
> try Leopard features and Leopard version of apps like iLife.
>
> > > I would also like to know if Mac is used by a fair amount of people
> > > for running Plan9/Inferno. That way I can assume there will be a fair
> > > amount of interest in the community and any issues on Mac will be
> > > addressed.
> >
> > there are a few people running macs.
> Thats good to know. During Bay Area meeting, when I asked about Mac
> support, Ron mentioned you use Mac regularly and thats what I have
> noticed in your postings also. Thats really good to know.
>
> I dont know when Apple will release Leopard but I would have a Mac
> Mini right after that. I thought of the MacBook but I thought it will
> be safer/cheaper to try Mac Mini.
>
> Thanks
> dharani
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-29 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-29 19:52 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2007-09-29 19:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-09-29 20:25 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2007-09-29 21:30 ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2007-09-29 21:49 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-09-29 21:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-09-30 15:18 ` Jack Johnson
2007-09-30 18:20 ` Russ Cox
2007-09-30 18:27 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-09-30 21:09 ` Russ Cox
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