From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Sickel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 01:12:41 -0600 Message-Id: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Subject: [9fans] vms Topicbox-Message-UUID: b895411a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 No, I'm not suggesting VAX/VMS on this channel:: Though I really enjoyed working on VAX Forth-sim/VMS so way- back that the wayback machine at web.archive.org can't find it. If brucee could track down the creator in Australia I'd be much obliged. He worked for DEC of course, I might have some paper trail to dig up if that would help. But be warned, it's BITNET email addresses and some physical locations that most likely don't exist anymore. I'm fairly certain that my old tape backups are no longer viable. Anyway... I was just trying reconstruct a couple of my semi-defunct VMware images when I sadly ran across "Glenda'OS Light". No, it's not a nice image of Plan 9, but yet another distro that makes the phrase "death before disco" more than apt. So what I'm thinking is: we've got all these various constructions of Plan 9 and Inferno out there, including Ron's nice *inux images, but there's not a single searchable site that provides a quick reference release that would give us inroads to all the /other/ operating systems available these days. Is the plan9 wiki page on vm installation the best place to approach this? Or should we encourage something that puts Plan 9 and Inferno images out into the general audience on all the different sites so that there's something that can always be updated? -jas