And, if your hardware won't work, i really strongly recommend you look at 9vx.
http://swtch.com/9vx/ Those of you who say TVX at IWP9 last month: on a recent trip to tahiti I took a diskless laptop (T23, disk removed) and TVX was really very usable on that 8-year-old, small machine, where ubuntu was quite unusable. The more I use TVX the more I find it quite nice as a "Plan 9 on a hardware platform that is unfriendly to Plan 9" system. ron
