From: Peter Hull <peterhull90@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Welcome Plan 9 community
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:05:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C82C5DE8-8C36-4CBE-81EC-79AE7172F98D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140302221648.GA1295@spark.home>
It’s not as exciting as real hardware but you could always run it on a virtual machine. I’ve got it running fine on VirtualBox, with networking (internet and between VMs)
Pete
On 2 Mar 2014, at 22:16, Szymon Olewniczak <szymon.olewniczak@rid.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just registerd to this mailing list, so hello everyone.
>
> I've read about Plan 9 several months ago and fascinated with ideas
> behind this OS. Now I've decided to try the system on my own and although
> I don't know much about it yet, I believe that it can be something that
> I would like to work for(I'm an IT student, so if I find myself clever
> enough to understand the power of Plan 9, I will try to help the project
> during the GOSC).
>
> But to begin with the main issue that brings me to write this message. I
> know that before I can do anything on Plan 9, I need hardware that
> cooperate with it. I've read the Supported PC Hardware[0] and
> realised that there is not much of it. Is there only one reliable motherboard
> (ASUS A8R32-MVP without NIC) that can run Plan9? I've also read there that
> there are several laptops pointed in this page without any additional
> comments in brackets. Does it mean that they are fully supported? I've
> also read that RaspberryPI can run Plan 9. I have RP rev. 2 so maybe it
> should be the hardware which I can use to start my Plan 9 adventure.
>
> What hardware can you recommend? What hardware do you use? Is there is
> any PC that can run both Plan 9 and Inferno?
>
> [0]http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-03 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-02 22:16 Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-03 1:05 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-03 5:54 ` Grant Mather
2014-03-03 18:05 ` Peter Hull [this message]
2014-03-03 19:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-03-03 20:28 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-03 20:37 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-03 20:52 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-03 20:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-03-03 22:19 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:23 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:43 ` Peter Hull
2014-03-05 20:48 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:45 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:46 ` Peter Hull
2014-03-03 21:50 ` Peter Hull
2014-03-03 21:06 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-03-03 17:15 Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-03 17:23 ` Szymon Olewniczak
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