From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Huntsman To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:40:59 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_BY2PR0301MB0662694837687F02F72F1003E4FC0BY2PR0301MB0662_" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [9fans] Distros Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d0a5102-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --_000_BY2PR0301MB0662694837687F02F72F1003E4FC0BY2PR0301MB0662_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! Since a similar line of conversation came up recently, I thought I'd ask= ... Maybe this was just my perception, but I remember that years ago, there = seemed to be a pretty strong aversion to forking the official distribution = from Bell Labs. These days I'm not certain where the majority of the activ= ity occurs, and which of the forks is the most "official", or at least "mai= nstream"... What would be the best place to start in, looking for the most current/w= idely-used distribution with amd64 support? 9front? 9atom? Other? As always, many thanks! -Ben --_000_BY2PR0301MB0662694837687F02F72F1003E4FC0BY2PR0301MB0662_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi!

Since a similar line of conversation came up recently, I th= ought I'd ask...

Maybe this was just my perception, but I remember that year= s ago, there seemed to be a pretty strong aversion to forking the official = distribution from Bell Labs. These days I'm not certain where the maj= ority of the activity occurs, and which of the forks is the most "official", or at least "mainstream"= ...

What would be the best place to start in, looking for the m= ost current/widely-used distribution with amd64 support? 9front? = ; 9atom? Other?

As always, many thanks!

-Ben

--_000_BY2PR0301MB0662694837687F02F72F1003E4FC0BY2PR0301MB0662_-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpcyBEb23DrW5ndWV6?= Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:39:31 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Distros Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d0ee168-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2016-09-11 18:40 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Huntsman : > Hi! > > What would be the best place to start in, looking for the most > current/widely-used distribution with amd64 support? 9front? 9atom? > Other? I would bet that the best distribution to start working with out of the box is the rpi image by Richard Miller. It's bell labs' based, afaik, but probably the most active fork is 9front (or maybe there is no fork). Andr=C3=A9s From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 10:48:54 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20160911174854.GA75143@wopr> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Distros Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d127850-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 07:39:31PM +0200, Andr=E9s Dom=EDnguez wrote: > 2016-09-11 18:40 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Huntsman : > > with amd64 support?=20 >=20 > the rpi image=20 >=20 I predict suffering. Benjamin: I wouldn't get too hung up on amd64 specifically. Labs, 9atom, and 9front should all work fine out of the box, and by the time you're using the system enough to be interested in accessing larger memory, you'll have a clear idea of which direction you want to go. I'm making an assumption there that memory support is what motivates your request for amd64 -- is there another reason you have in mind? For most cases, there isn't a tremendous difference a user would notice otherwise. i386 and amd64 live in harmony here. khm From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <639d10ffbe1adf46ee893f4af150311d@felloff.net> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:50:35 +0200 From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Distros Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d167cca-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 he wrote *AMD*64 not *ARM*64 ;-) -- cinap From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160911174854.GA75143@wopr> References: <20160911174854.GA75143@wopr> From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpcyBEb23DrW5ndWV6?= Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:36:40 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Distros Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d21a1c2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2016-09-11 19:48 GMT+02:00 Kurt H Maier : > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 07:39:31PM +0200, Andr=C3=A9s Dom=C3=ADnguez wrot= e: >> 2016-09-11 18:40 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Huntsman : >> > with amd64 support? >> >> the rpi image > > I predict suffering. I understood that he wanted to start with a distribution with amd64 support, not to start running it on amd64. Most, if not all, rpi sources has been integrated into bell labs' distribution. It's not clear to me if he wants the distribution with better amd64 support or the most used/developed/supported with amd64 support (from the question looks more the later). Andr=C3=A9s From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <639d10ffbe1adf46ee893f4af150311d@felloff.net> References: <639d10ffbe1adf46ee893f4af150311d@felloff.net> From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpcyBEb23DrW5ndWV6?= Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:39:27 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Distros Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d31a5c2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2016-09-11 19:50 GMT+02:00 : > he wrote *AMD*64 not *ARM*64 ;-) Does plan9 on the rpi run armv8? I thought it was armv7 even on the rpi3. Andr=C3=A9s From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:43:53 +0200 From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Distros Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d35a41a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> he wrote *AMD*64 not *ARM*64 ;-) > > Does plan9 on the rpi run armv8? I thought it was armv7 even on the rpi3. it was a joke... -- cinap