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Getting Plan 9 Running on the Raspberry Pi

by listrophy on 11/30/12, 7:37 PM with 34 comments

  • by anonymous on 11/30/12, 8:41 PM

    Plan 9 is really somewhat of a sad case. It's a beautiful gem that just exists by itself.
  • by jerf on 11/30/12, 8:57 PM

    I've begun flagging all the "I RAN A PROGRAM ON THE RPI" posts, but this is an exception. Though I'd still go VM: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installing_plan_9_on_q...
  • by devin on 11/30/12, 10:29 PM

    Step 1) Install Plan9 on Raspberry Pi

    Step 2) Run the Inferno-OS VM on your primary machine

    Step 3) Let your imagination run wild.

  • by lloeki on 11/30/12, 9:01 PM

    On OSX, you'd rather change the dd line to the much faster:

        dd bs=1m if=9pi.img of=/dev/rdisk1
  • by eschaton on 11/30/12, 9:13 PM

    What about the Oberon system, has anyone brought it to Raspberry Pi yet?
  • by devin on 11/30/12, 9:13 PM

    Now, take your Raspberry Pi running Plan9, and start setting up Inferno OS on all of your other machines. Let your imagination run wild.
  • by maidenhead on 12/2/12, 6:24 PM

    Plan 9 is significantly more recent than Unix: Back when Unix was first invented, graphics existed but there were more kinds of graphics devices, and it wasn't entirely clear that vector graphics, for example, wouldn't become the way forward and deserve the majority of developer attention.
  • by rwmj on 12/1/12, 12:06 PM

    It's amazing how much better xz is at compressing that disk image:

        -rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 143473160 Nov 26 11:53 9pi.img.gz
        -rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones  60972776 Dec  1 11:48 9pi.img.xz
  • by ChuckMcM on 11/30/12, 8:32 PM

    Nicely done, now we need a MULTICS port to the Raspberry Pi, lets get real folks!
  • by Nursie on 11/30/12, 8:57 PM

    I've always like what I've read about Plan 9, nice to see it's kept going.