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Plan9FromOuterPi

Here’s a great post to help you get Plan 9 running on your Pi, from The Bendyworks Blog:

Do you like Unix? Do you really like Unix? Well, what if I told you there’s a little-known operating system out there that’s more Unix than even Unix is. Cool, right?

Well it is true! 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?

…Plan 9 is, I think, a really interesting take on networked computing. It uses a really novel approach of filesystems to do, well basically everything. It has seamless networking and what we may call “remote desktop”, but in a really different and efficient way. It has a text editor, Acme that is somewhere between both Vi and Emacs, while managing again, to not really be much like either of them, a theme of Plan 9.

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2 Comments

  1. Richard Miller demoed his RasPi port of plan 9 at the Oxford Jam a couple of weeks ago. I’ve just finished editing the video if that’s of interest. http://youtu.be/gP74umWgdE8

  2. Sorry to be a nuisance. I had to change the video and YouTube forced a new URL as you can’t edit vids once published…

    http://youtu.be/O7ZELOUIyvw

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