Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2010-01-19 Thread hiro
So how far did you get? I'm currently reading about that package system and think we could send a 9vx package to the maintainer when ready... I'm also not sure yet about the best way of binding packages directly into the filesystem instead of ftp getting them On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:30 PM, ron m

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-17 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > Tiny Core Linux looks interesting. Played around a bit in a VM tonight > and will be trying it on the ThinkPad tomorrow. I'm curious about your > setup. I assume you're using 9vx directly for graphics, no more > drawterm? You run within X?

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
Tiny Core Linux looks interesting. Played around a bit in a VM tonight and will be trying it on the ThinkPad tomorrow. I'm curious about your setup. I assume you're using 9vx directly for graphics, no more drawterm? You run within X? My attempt tomorrow is going to be giving a GB or two to Linux a

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> NetBSD runs on ESX at the same time as Plan 9 and it switches off > reproduceably pretty abruptly when I try to FTP the GNU directory from > gnu.org, good to see the netbsd guys have taste! - erik

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread lucio
> You say 'skip lguest' -- that's fine. But what's the best alternative > for running Plan9 server > on the same bare metal that needs to run something else? I find VMware ESX (server 3i) pretty robust, whereas VMware server under Ubuntu makes Ubuntu somewhat more fragile than if I don't start an

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > You say 'skip lguest' -- that's fine. But what's the best alternative for > running Plan9 server > on the same bare metal that needs to run something else? > OK, for that, lguest is great. I am thinking entirely in terms fo supporting

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> You say 'skip lguest' -- that's fine. But what's the best alternative > for running Plan9 server > on the same bare metal that needs to run something else? more hardware ☺ - erik

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On 03/16/09 06:01 PM, ron minnich wrote: skip lguest. What I'm looking at now is tinycore linux: tinycorelinux.org and vx32. Much easier. Makes a nice terminal. I have to add some things to it, it doesn't come w/wireless. That is all fine for the terminal (I suppose you really mean running t

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread ron minnich
skip lguest. What I'm looking at now is tinycore linux: tinycorelinux.org and vx32. Much easier. Makes a nice terminal. I have to add some things to it, it doesn't come w/wireless. ron

[9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
I recently got a relatively modern ThinkPad. I figured it might be a good chance to play with something new, and THnX has always looked interesting. I have Ron's stuff from August or so; is that still the latest? Is there a better way to run Plan 9 in lguest, with as minimal a Linux underneath as p