On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Joel C. Salomon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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? > > —Joel
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
