mmm, not sure i agree. i would be very happy to see a modern browser on plan9, though i would not want anyone to spend a lot of time supporting one.
a few years ago cinap got opera and firefox to run as linux binaries under linuxemu. i spent some time tweaking that code to run more recent releases but sadly the linux kernel api was changing too fast for my spare time to keep up with it. i still think this might be a good approach but have less time (more kids) to work on such a project. the other route might be to piggy back on some of the harvey os work. in the meantime i just use remote desktop to a windows box. -Steve > On 31 Dec 2017, at 18:28, Brian L. Stuart <blstu...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> On Sun, 12/31/17, Rui Carmo <rui.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I honestly don’t think Plan9 or Inferno will become >> “general use” without (at the very least) a modern >> browser, > > For which we can all be grateful. "General use" is not a > good thing to be desired. One of the biggest reasons I > moved away from Linux was that it was becoming too > mainstream for me. > >> Inferno, dis and 9p seem like a good fit for >> embedded devices, > > Very true. > >> So I’d like to know if anyone here knows about >> recent efforts to run Inferno on other tiny >> machines... > > Not particularly recent, but several years ago I ported > Inferno to the SunSPOT device. As I recall, the version > I was using had 1MB of RAM and 4MB of flash. It took > some squeezing (like severely reducing the size of the > ARP tables), but I did get it running including IPv6 over > the 802.15.4 radio in it. > > BLS
