From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paschke Christoph Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:27:17 +0100 Message-Id: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Subject: [9fans] GSoC 2012 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 69ad5e46-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Sure, a project around a good installer is quite useful that people not = get frustrated already at the beginning in the trial of a new system. = And doing a good installer is sure code based. I started with Inferno at emu and this was still a quite easy way = although the installation description was not good. I got it to work on = my Mac after reading some more letters and descriptions. It was quite = funny how I got it run. I found an italian installation description and = use the google translator. But the google translator tell me: "How to = install the hell" because Inferno is translated with HELL. And when the = translator talk about Limbo (what is in english Limbus pre-hell), he = said such things like: "This is the folder you find the pre-hell" But = with this hell and pre-hell (limbus) translation I got the installation = done ;-) Sure, this is not the classical way what believe an operating system is = installed. But if you install an "Inferno" you need expect everything, = isn't it. After the installation I thought: Not so bad hell, now it's = running. And pre-hell is already waiting to get inspected.=20=