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...
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.
On OSX, you'd rather change the dd line to the much faster:
dd bs=1m if=9pi.img of=/dev/rdisk1What about the Oberon system, has anyone brought it to Raspberry Pi yet?
Now, take your Raspberry Pi running Plan9, and start setting up Inferno OS on all of your other machines. Let your imagination run wild.
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.
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.xzNicely done, now we need a MULTICS port to the Raspberry Pi, lets get real folks!
I've always like what I've read about Plan 9, nice to see it's kept going.
I get a good laugh out of the "Oooh, my RPi is a web server! " type posts. Of course it can be a web server - it's more powerful with more storage and RAM than some of the servers we ran a 30000-user ISP with back in the mid-90s.
The "amazing" bit is that they're $35 + junk-box parts to have a working desktop or server config.
Plan 9 is really somewhat of a sad case. It's a beautiful gem that just exists by itself.