Thursday, December 6, 2012

Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi is out!

Plan 9 is a UNIX-like operating system from Bell Labs. It's hardware requirements are low. How does this sound; 32 MB RAM and 486-processor? From now on Raspberry Pi is also supported. You can download image and write it to an SD-card, read some manuals and start using Plan!

It seems Raspberry Pi is becoming more and more versatile base and is offering whole bunch of different operating systems for you and me. What a bless! Intel-based computers are not that attractive because "Raspi" is so much cheaper and still has a lot of potential.

I've been studying RISC OS and, in fact, just got started with it. Now another OS is knocking on door. Plan 9 might look and feel very different from any other OS. But that's just great fun and adventurous! I feel I'm really lucky that I found Raspberry Pi and all it has to offer. Plan 9 is one very important step forward for Raspberry Pi.

Check out these links:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/

http://www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf

Edit: Here's what I got! Plan 9 boots quickly. Not much I can do with it at the moment. I have to read through manuals...


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