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Why would you have a Pi instead of a MacBook Pro? Rhetorical question is rhetorical.
Why is that a rhetorical question? It's a perfectly valid question.
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With most of the inferno team working for Google; I wonder why android hasn't adopted any of inferno's technology.
Most of the team? I only know that Rob Pike and Russ Cox are Google employers. And I have the impression that they are working mostly on Golang and some distributed infrastructures. Did they employ any other inferno developers?
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Because the Raspberry Pi is basically an experimentation/testbed platform. It's meant to do basically anything which is why one might install Inferno, or any other OS on it. Furthermore, it's backed by an SD card, so it's not as if any OS you choose completely monopolizes the platform. You don't need to choose just one when dealing with it. If your Raspberry Pi is your only computer, then yeah, maybe this isn't for y…
Yes, as you say. The beauty of the Pi is the fact you can have a variety of SD cards with different OS/Configurations and easily swap between them and play with them. It is a very cheap educational tool. I have 4 of them, and they also make great network storage tools. Add a HDD, the transmission software and you can easily download TV shows and stream them to you 1080p TV for example. £27 in the UK, absolute bargain…
I have high hopes for this, though, since Inferno is a lot of fun to tinker with.
Hello i would like to try that in virtualbox since I don't have a RPI. How one would go to load an .img file in virtualbox ? Should I try to convert it to some .iso and boot with it ?
Can someone explain the main differences between Plan 9 OS and Inferno? Why should I use one of them?
Answering the second question: you won't want to use it in production, but if you have ever been intrigued by one of those Unix philosophy preaches, you should definitely take a look at it. It takes the tool philosophy (build simple tools that are easy to combine) and filesystem metaphor much further, besides addressing some (albeit not all) long-standing Unix WTFs. Plan 9 is not the most elegant design of OSes, but…
Would you mind saying why? It isn't unstable or anything, just unfamiliar, in that you can't write C programs on it. But people do use it in production.
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Answering the second question: you won't want to use it in production, but if you have ever been intrigued by one of those Unix philosophy preaches, you should definitely take a look at it. It takes the tool philosophy (build simple tools that are easy to combine) and filesystem metaphor much further, besides addressing some (albeit not all) long-standing Unix WTFs. Plan 9 is not the most elegant design of OSes, but…
"you won't want to use it in production" Would you mind saying why? It isn't unstable or anything, just unfamiliar, in that you can't write C programs on it. But people do use it in production.
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"you won't want to use it in production" Would you mind saying why? It isn't unstable or anything, just unfamiliar, in that you can't write C programs on it. But people do use it in production.
Well, it's always safer to use widely used solutions in production. That way you encounter fewer bugs, and it's much easier to find a workaround in case you do encounter one.
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Well, it's always safer to use widely used solutions in production. That way you encounter fewer bugs, and it's much easier to find a workaround in case you do encounter one.
this smells like "I don't have a technical reason"
I run it as my primary development environment, but what I do is pretty specific, 99.9% people need something else out of their development systems.