From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) From: Peter Hull In-Reply-To: <20140302221648.GA1295@spark.home> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:05:55 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20140302221648.GA1295@spark.home> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Welcome Plan 9 community Topicbox-Message-UUID: c2a3203e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It=92s not as exciting as real hardware but you could always run it on a = virtual machine. I=92ve got it running fine on VirtualBox, with = networking (internet and between VMs)=20 Pete On 2 Mar 2014, at 22:16, Szymon Olewniczak = wrote: > Hi, > I've just registerd to this mailing list, so hello everyone. >=20 > 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=20 > 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=20= > enough to understand the power of Plan 9, I will try to help the = project > during the GOSC).=20 >=20 > 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 =20 > (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. >=20 > What hardware can you recommend? What hardware do you use? Is there is > any PC that can run both Plan 9 and Inferno? >=20 > = [0]http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.h= tml >=20 >=20