First Week of Plan 9

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I am looking forward to the follow up post. Plan 9 is one of those OSes I have been meaning to install and attempt to use since I first read about it years ago. My idea was to install it on a few year old laptop, so I wonder if that would be less hazardous than trying to kick it onto a VM. I guess depending on driver support, it might actually be worse.

Part one reminds me of when I was very excited to have my first home unix install with 386BSD. I think my install came on 5.25" disks. From what I recall, it took me a month to get it running in the most clunky way and found myself returning to OS/2 2.0 for my getting work done system. Was finally glad when I discovered the more (at the time) install friendly Linux.

Heh, yes, it was very much a learning experience. My first experience with Unix-like systems was one of the early Ubuntu releases, Warty Warhog was the codename, spent days trying to figure out how to get my WiFi working.

Or my first Gentoo install, which was my first time compiling a kernel. That was a grueling process. Had to go through it twice since I'd messed up something the first time through and then, of course, I had to spend a couple of days compiling a desktop environment afterwards. I always have a blast trying out a new system, though. :)

Holy crap! I was planning to install and play around with Plan 9, but after reading this decided that I can do better things in a week.

You could ask the author for a min copy his disk image

If you still decide to go through with it, feel free to send me an email if you run into any difficulties and I'll try to help out.

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