>On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Brian L. Stuart wrote: [snip]
> It has become a little confusing over the last 20 years. In a way > too brief way, here are the basic incarnations of Plan9: > > - Natively running the current Plan9 kernel > - Stand-alone terminal with its own fs > - Terminal (possibly diskless) talking to an external fs > - CPU, auth, or file server (or some combination) > > All of these are running Plan9 as their "bare metal" OS > > - Same as above but in a virtual machine, such as virtualbox, > vmware, qemu, etc. > - Ken's FS: a file server that runs on bare hardware > - 9vx: a port of the Plan9 kernel to vx32 that allows a full Plan9 > system to run as a user-level application on another system, > including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX > - drawterm: an earlier port of a limited Plan9 kernel that's similar > to a terminal connecting to a remote CPU server > - P9P (aka Plan9 ports, Plan9 from user space): a port of the Plan9 > user apps to POSIX-like systems > > And just for fun these can all play together. At the moment, I'm > using a MacOS machine that has one file system mounted using the P9P > 9pfuse program. It's also running an instance of virtualbox that's > net booted a Plan9 terminal. There's also an instance of 9vx > running which is accessing the file system mounted via P9P. All of > these pieces are talking to a Plan9 CPU server which in turn uses a > Ken FS file server. I *know* that I'm going to get myself into trouble, hanging around a bunch of Plan 9 hackers - like you seem to be :) My wife just made me get rid of a bunch of P-IIIs that would have been great for this new venture. Shoot!! (that's sh#t with 2 Os ) [snip] > > I just checked - it's a 166Mhz P-I with 98M RAM and 4.5G HDD. Made > > a good dedicated mail server. May not have enough gonads for a > > Plan 9 server though. > > > I wouldn't dismiss it entirely. My old Plan9 CPU/auth/file server > at home had a very similar configuration. Then I'll have to give it a shot. Then go looking for some more recent hardware! Here we go again ... :D -- Duke
