From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4ECC28EB.2000305@gmail.com> References: <1e5fb51c21d5e84f568ff26f0f0da8a4@chula.quanstro.net> <4ECC28EB.2000305@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:06:18 -0800 Message-ID: From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Topicbox-Message-UUID: 444f122a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Joel C. Salomon w= rote: > On 11/22/2011 10:46 AM, ron minnich wrote: >> If you're serious about booting a 64-bit os you need NIX. But you're >> not going to get graphics. > > To which, on 11/22/2011 11:00 AM, erik quanstrom responded: >> today's nix is quite raw. =A0unless you're working on nix itself, >> you'll be happier with plan 9. > > Is NIX the only distribution for amd64, then? =A0I just want to play > around in user space: learn Go, use Unicode in C, &c., &c. =A0Would I be > better off using a 32-bit distro? > > =97Joel You should be able to happily use Nix as a 32-bit Plan 9 system. Unfortunately we don't distribute an install ISO, but I have been playing around with a bootable USB stick with a full-blown fossil environment on it. The current task is to get it booting the nix kernel as well as the regular 32-bit ones--we're getting there! I guess there's no reason we *couldn't* do an install ISO... without modifications it would just give you a 32 bit environment with the Nix source available, and the selection of changes we've made. John