Tag: Plan 9

• Plan 9 blues

  So, I can boot Plan 9 on the Raspberry Pi but I cannot get the keyboard or the mouse to work, which seems to be a reasonably common problem. Seems the kernel is still pretty experimental at the moment. (NB I am using the 7 December kernel too, so that fix is not working for…

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 9, 2012

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  Plan 9, Raspberry Pi, USB keyboard, USB mouse

• Raspberry Pi successfully booted with Plan 9

  It’s true, Plan 9 will boot on a Raspberry Pi. Simply a matter of copying the image to the SD card and powering the thing up. Didn’t seem to like my USB keyboard though. Whether that is because of a problem with the keyboard, with my Raspberry Pi’s hardware or with the Pla 9 port…

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 8, 2012

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  Plan 9, Raspberry Pi

• Plan9 on the Raspberry Pi

  “Plan 9 from Bell Labs” was meant to be the successor system to Unix and like the original was designed and built by AT&Ts engineers at Bell Labs(the title is, of course, a skit on what is supposedly the best worst-ever film – “Plan 9 from Outer Space”). Plan 9 never really made it. Linux…

  Adrian McMenamin

  November 25, 2012

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  Bell Labs, Linux, multi-computer, Operating system, Plan 9, plan 9 from outer space, Raspberry Pi, Unix