This is remarkably cool. “Plan 9 occupies an interesting niche in the open source operating system world. It is a full-fledged descendant of Unix, but not in the way that most systems out there are. It took the bones and beating heart of Unix and then built a brand-new cybernetic exoskeleton around it, with lasers, and heat vision… oh wait. You want to boot this bad-boy up, right? Well, okay, we’ll do that. But what hardware shall we run it on? Hey, you got a Raspberry Pi? Well then, read on!” A ready-made image to run Plan 9 on your Pi.
Now, that is seriously beyond cool. All that’s left to wish for, is QNX on Pi. Till then, this is going to be interesting!
According to dev-lab QNX allready runs on the PI and several other low cost ARM chips. I would jjust like you to know.
But it is not for the masses. Only for companies.
i had mentioned here qnx 6 sometime back, and the linux fanatics were willing to burn down the house.
it also seems that they don’t know that “multiprocessing” means multi-cpu.
Edited 2012-12-03 14:54 UTC
Acme […] is somewhere between both Vi and Emacs
What? Acme is nothing like Vi or Emacs. It is a GUI editor that requires heavy mouse usage. It is nothing like any other editor I have ever used. It is very nice with many useful unique features but it has a steep learning curve. The interface is not at all discoverable, so you can’t just dive right in. Unfortunately it requires a three-button mouse so it is not very practical on my two-button laptop.
If you want to learn more about Acme watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
There is a Linux port called Wily.
I think what it’s supposed to mean is that Acme is somewhere between weird and outlandish. It’s not what you’d expect, and in a way you wouldn’t expect. Like the Spanish inquisition.
It is clearly an editor for the (very) technical user which sees the benevit in learning a different mindset.
Great news! I have been looking forward to this. Downloading it right now. Thanks for letting us know.
PS: It looks like it could use a torrent link or some quick mirror.
Edited 2012-11-30 22:21 UTC
I tossed it up on my server:
http://kaidenshi.com/rpi/9pi.img.gz
I’m going to try to mirror all the “unofficial” Pi images soon.
Thanks! My pi(s) are arriving this week so I’m eager to try lots of things.
Here’s a proper page to keep an eye on, I’ll be uploading OS images as I have time:
http://www.kaidenshi.com/raspberry-pi/
I was about to suggest “CoBLitzing” the URLs for the images, to take advantage of their CDN, but it looks like it’s being wound down.
http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/coblitz/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDeeN
So Perhaps Coral Cache instead? http://www.coralcdn.org/
I would be the first one on my block.