From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: joelcsalomon@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:04:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <de375f7bc0a1eaffd389018bcf4b258a@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ECC28EB.2000305@gmail.com>
> To which, on 11/22/2011 11:00 AM, erik quanstrom responded:
> > today's nix is quite raw. unless you're working on nix itself,
> > you'll be happier with plan 9.
>
> Is NIX the only distribution for amd64, then? I just want to play
> around in user space: learn Go, use Unicode in C, &c., &c. Would I be
> better off using a 32-bit distro?
nix runs in x86_64 long mode, the others do not. everything should
run on amd64 hardware and accomplish what you're after, though.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 15:39 Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 15:46 ` ron minnich
2011-11-22 15:56 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
[not found] ` <CAL_gH73FUfzOdFg1HHMomr8_kubMwYvraXnkYUqQQ4hbzD33iw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-22 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 22:57 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:04 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-11-22 23:21 ` ron minnich
2011-11-23 7:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-22 23:06 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 19:41 ` Jack Norton
2011-11-22 22:50 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:00 ` Giacomo Tesio
2011-11-22 22:14 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 22:53 ` [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 22:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:33 ` andrew zerger
2011-11-24 21:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-24 21:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-24 22:05 ` ron minnich
2011-11-24 22:28 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-27 0:14 ` [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Ruben Schuller
2011-11-27 6:29 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-27 7:08 ` John Floren
2011-11-27 9:18 ` Lucio De Re
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