From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:32:25 +0000 From: Roderick To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <20181002113028.kucfal5ffcjjk7ky@v520.kathe.in> Message-ID: References: <20181002113028.kucfal5ffcjjk7ky@v520.kathe.in> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port : complete system : kernel : freebsd || linux ? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e4f05304-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I think it is uninteresting: one can always install plan9port in a meager installation of openbsd, freebsd or linux. More interesting is to have the original plan9 and perhaps a virtual machine on it to run one of the above OS and their software. Unfortunately I am having problems installing plan9. It seems to be very selective on the hardware. Rodrigo On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > i had been trying to work with a collaborator to develop a complete, > installable system for plan9port. > > while initially being quite gung-ho about linux, an accidental discovery > and ensuing experiements show the freebsd environment to be a lot more > performant and responsive, almost as much as netbsd for something like a > plan9port system. > > wish to ask the community that if such a system were to be successfully > developed and distributed with source and free of cost, would it be > welcomed or most would not even bother to look at? > > also, if there's enough interest, would there be someone out here > capable enough to support netbsd-amd64? > > thanks, > > ~mayuresh > > >