Re: [9fans] Nemo's Opus

2016-09-11 Thread Winston Kodogo
To add to the previous comments, I'm a huge fan of Nemo's “Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions”: https://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf It's just a brilliant guide to finding your way around the system, and doing some programming in it, especially if you're not a kernel-head and talk

Re: [9fans] Distros

2016-09-11 Thread cinap_lenrek
>> 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

Re: [9fans] Distros

2016-09-11 Thread Andrés Domínguez
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. Andrés

Re: [9fans] Distros

2016-09-11 Thread Andrés Domínguez
2016-09-11 19:48 GMT+02:00 Kurt H Maier : > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 07:39:31PM +0200, Andrés Domínguez wrote: >> 2016-09-11 18:40 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Huntsman >> : >> > with amd64 support? >> >> the rpi image > > I predict suffering. I understood

Re: [9fans] Distros

2016-09-11 Thread cinap_lenrek
he wrote *AMD*64 not *ARM*64 ;-) -- cinap

Re: [9fans] Distros

2016-09-11 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 07:39:31PM +0200, Andrés Domínguez wrote: > 2016-09-11 18:40 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Huntsman > : > > with amd64 support? > > the rpi image > I predict suffering. Benjamin: I wouldn't get too hung up on amd64 specifically. Labs, 9atom,

Re: [9fans] Distros

2016-09-11 Thread Andrés Domínguez
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

[9fans] 9front on raspberry pi

2016-09-11 Thread Chris McGee
Hi All, I have an experimental (read unstable, may void the warranty) merge of Richard Miller's kernel for raspberry Pi into 9front. It is capable of running Go programs and sdk. The code is here as a drop in replacement for existing /sys/src/9/bcm: https://github.com/sirnewton01/rpi-9front

[9fans] Distros

2016-09-11 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
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