On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM adventures in9 <adventures...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suggesting ways to try out a Plan9 system is not a hypothetical for > me. I put myself out there doing videos demonstrating Plan9 systems, > and so I get questions all the time. FWIW I have found your channel *extremely* helpful in learning how to play with 9front and am very grateful for it. Matt > > Everyone has access to amd64 machines. The used market is flooded > with retired quad core amd64 Dell and Lenovo office desktops. Most > experienced Linux users who want to try a Plan9 system can also > navigate qemu. 9Front covers all these use cases. The typical > problems that arise are lack of drivers, which 9Legacy is even worse > with. > > Besides the hardware issue, the biggest benefit from 9Front is that it > has an active community all working on the same fork. The most eye > opening thing about this whole long exchange is that the old Plan9 > people are largely working alone on private forks. > > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 10:02 AM Ori Bernstein <o...@eigenstate.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 13 May 2024 11:56:20 -0400 > > "ibrahim via 9fans" <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering why you don't adjust it so that 9front can also be run > there. > > > > Because 9vx is a hacky dead end; it fundamentally > > only runs (and can only run) on 32-bit x86. It > > works because of a quirk of 32-bit x86 addressing. > > > > Linux distros are wanting to drop support for > > running 32 bit binaries (Ubuntu tried in 2019, > > others have tried on and off). > > > > Macs no longer ship x86 processors, and even the > > ones that have x86 cpus dropped support for 32-bit > > binaries 5 years ago. > > > > I have no idea what windows is up to. > > > > Basically, qemu/drawterm works better in more or > > less every way. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f230f2656bbb-Mada7642df61168a6a618ddef Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
