Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 06/05/2011 11:51 AM, Josh Marshall wrote: I'm chugging through the resources, reading, and documentation. This system acts differently from anything I've previously used, so I'm at a loss at...everything. I visited the IRC channel and am working through the .pdf and the main site. Is there

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Comeau At9Fans
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:04 AM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok, I tried running 9vx for my linux install and it dies. Ubuntu > > 11.04 fully updated x64_86. I don't know what else info will help. > > Are you sure you tried one of the current 9vx repository ([1] or [2]), > an

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
Hi, friend, sry 4 a bit offending response: IMHO, maybe, you should get a 0.5 GB partition & try to run p9 natively, believe me, or not, it is worth to. Or, get a $20 i386 box and install p9 on it. And yes, I am not a techie, I am a paleobiologist w/some basic skills on C programming. Yes, the lea

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
On 05/06/2011 08:18, Josh Marshall wrote: I'm chugging through the resources, reading, and documentation. This system acts differently from anything I've previously used, so I'm at a loss at...everything. I visited the IRC channel and am working through the .pdf and the main site. Is there any

[9fans] Reminder: CFP: 6th International Workshop on Plan 9

2011-06-06 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
6th International Workshop on Plan 9 Call for papers http://iwp9.org Purpose The workshop aims to bring together researchers, developers and students working on Plan 9 from Bell Labs or related systems, platforms, and projects, to discuss a wide range of system and application ideas and issues.

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Jack Norton
Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 06/05/2011 11:51 AM, Josh Marshall wrote: I'm chugging through the resources, reading, and documentation. This system acts differently from anything I've previously used, so I'm at a loss at...everything. I visited the IRC channel and am working through the .pdf a

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread David du Colombier
> > [1] https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/vx32 > > [2] https://bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32 > > [3] https://bitbucket.org/rsc/vx32 > > [4] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/9vx-0.12.tar.bz2 > > Where does http://swtch.com/9vx fit into things these days? The mercurial repository referenced on this page does

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Rudolf Sykora
> Either that or you guys could consolidate all your personal 'werc' sites > into one Plan 9 'experimental stuff' wiki.  It seems a bit ridiculous that > werc offers multi-user editing and comments, yet everyone and their mom has > their own werc site with a Plan 9 sub-page. I would put my signatu

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
Hello I'm glad plan9 works fine in a lot of virtual machines (thanks for it). And you can run plan9 on recent machines too, plan9 and 9atom have worked for me quite well with my Intel Core i7-920 computer. Also, we all like to rule the world with a couple of emails. I could email Mr. Carmack to p

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'm glad plan9 works fine in a lot of virtual machines (thanks for it). And > you can run plan9 on recent machines too, plan9 and 9atom have worked for me > quite well with my Intel Core i7-920 computer. works fine for me on the second-generation core stuff, too such as the e3-1220. - erik

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
Jack Norton said: > Personally I'd like to see work put into the Plan 9 wiki backend. Good thing there's a Summer of Code project for that! The student is looking to upgrade the format of stored documents and the html generation from it. Should make it much more useful. Greg Comeau asked: > Whe

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread cinap_lenrek
DooM is functional on plan9front, including sound and keyboard input. The main thanks go to this guy who did the initial port: http://jtomaschke.blogspot.com/ -- cinap

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Josh Marshall
Right now, wading through this email list, also put my signature behind consolidating these resources. While I don't know much about the forks and the culture behind this OS, Having a central info-hub with heavier file hosting supported by sorceforge or something would be nice. I'm actually worki

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> Finally for this, what would it take to have the GPU treated as a processor > bank for idling and tasks not requiring a full CPU core? leaving trifling software problems tiny running general-purpose code on a special-purpose bit of haradware and running multiple cpu arches in the same machine as

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Carlos Oliveira
I downloaded this distribution and it runs fine on Mac OS X. I am trying to compile a C program by following the manual, but I get to a point where the loader 8l can't find the file /386/lib/libc.a Can you guys tell how to get this library? - Ca

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Josh Marshall
Well, two reasons come to my mind immediately. First, I'd be cool. Second, the wattage you listed is the max wattage, not the idle or light load wattage which would likely be used. Per processing element, GPUs use less power, and you get more processing power per watt than a CPU under certain lo

Re: [9fans] Utilizing the GPU (WAS: Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.)

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:57:28 + Josh Marshall wrote: > Also, I'd like to do something interesting with my free time. I guess you'll be writing a compiler and assembler for the GPU and.. not too much else, probably. Using the GPU as a proc gives you a NUMA architecture if I'm not wrong, and t

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> Well, two reasons come to my mind immediately. First, I'd be cool. Second, > the wattage you listed is the max wattage, not the idle or light load > wattage which would likely be used. Per processing element, GPUs use less > power, and you get more processing power per watt than a CPU under ce