On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:10 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) > <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > >> I'll put up a youtube movie in the next while, but there is a video of > >> iwp9 I think on the subject. > > > > And for those of us using only Plan9 to troll the Interweeb, isn't there > > a one paragraph text summary someplace? > > Sorry. > > It is a tinycorelinux USB stick somewhat (but not much!) customized > with a 9vx installation. It runs really well on old, small systems and > really fast on new ones. I included 9vx, the vx32 mercurial tree, and > mercurial and gcc toolchain so you can update 9vx, hack the source, > and build a new 9vx kernel. Thus, you've got a small (well, < 1G > anyway; a cheap USB stick nowadays) image that gives you a full Plan 9 > environment but works on almost any hardware. > > ron > > Excellent! :-) I've had some odd troubles in the past getting 9vx to behave in all the same ways as a regular Plan 9 machine, but then I think most of those had been addressed on 9fans at some point. Seemed like some of them were around networking and such.
