[f45s8g2]

Question for the author:

Your blog says you have an EeePC and run Plan 9. So does Plan 9 run on the Eee? If yes, which Eee model do you have? As for the article, it's been a while since I looked at Inferno. Thanks for redirecting attention to it again. It seems like it would make a great mobile OS.

I am going to try running Inferno on an EeePC. Will it only run on Linux? How about BSD?

[doublec]

Inferno has even been ported to run on phones: http://www.android-dev.ro/2011/09/17/hellaphone-inferno-os-f...

Similar to Mozilla's B2G in approach, it uses Android's basic Linux system and builds on that. Source here: https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno

[1337p337]

Inferno seems to do fine on BSD, OSX, Windows. It had a little trouble coping with CLang but a makefile tweak to make it use gcc fixes it.

If you want to try runnong Plan 9 on an EeePC, 9atom is tuned for that. I have one of the older ones (701 is the model, I think) and it does boot Plan 9.

[f45s8g2]

I just ran across No Execute on your blog. I can't believe I never found that before (I've chased up all the Plan 9 stuff before).

I've also been an Atlast user for a few years. Can't believe I never heard about your fork of it. John Walker's writeup on Atlast should be required reading for all programmers.

I'm going to try 9atom. I have a newer Eee with no CD drive. With BSD I can convert iso to img, add boot code and be up and running quick. But I guess it won't be so simple with 9atom? If this works, I'll be very happy.

[1337p337]

No Execute is one of my favorite (semi-) blogs!

I couldn't agree more about the Atlast writeup. I'm glad for the vast proliferation of Lua, if for no other reason than it has made scriptability a library. I can certainly believe you've never heard of my fork. I actually feel bad because it's still "in beta", being a work in progress. I've been meaning to send a patch to Mr. Walker for the 64-bit issues, but there's always another bug or feature in the way, and I've held off on a "real" (tarballs on a server, documentation) release until I ping him and fix some bugs.

Regarding 9atom, I don't recall any difficulties booting from USB, but it was a while back, and I didn't quite get it installed. I've been running 9front for the most part when I run Plan 9.

[f45s8g2]

I'm reading through No Execute now and it's fantastic so far.

Thanks again for redirecting our attention toward some quality stuff.

I'm psyched to get some version of Plan9 running on a netbook. Plan9 is work of art.

[1337p337]

Your profile is fairly sparse; I wonder if you'd mind emailing me; there are a couple of things I wanted to chat about. (Address is on my site.)

[andrewflnr]

Inferno is supposed to run on just about anything, from bare metal to Windows, IIRC.