On Oct 3, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: > > aram, by a complete, installable system for plan9port, i meant a > distribution running the linux kernel, bionic, plan9port, minimal xorg. > that distribution would be bootable off a usb disk and can be installed > to your harddisk like any generic gnu/linux distribution. > it is meant for use by those who want a pure plan9port based system and > nothing more, initially. later, as demand mandates, i'll add in > software.
Have you looked at glendix as someone else suggested? Is there really any demand for what you want to build? You will be spending a lot more time using a system than in installation so why spend time on perfecting an installable system for some imagined user population? At any rate, you should be clear about *why* you want this. If you just want to learn about plan9, bite the bullet and use a real or virtual machine running plan9. If you want to run plan9 on a modern machine that is not supported natively by plan9/9front, run it in a VM. If you mainly want plan9 but also run programs not ported to plan9 (such as a browser), running plan9 in a VM is likely easier than running linux in a VM running on top of plan9. If you just want to use acme or rio, you already have them in the standard p9p. Compiling from source is pretty easy on *BSD, Linux & MacOS. If you have Linux kernel + plan9 userland, you'll be fighting both systems.
