But but but that's not Unix! https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1
(Seeing plan9 running on real hardware always makes me unreasonably happy, so thank you!)
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Beautiful :3
Thanks 💖 The X200 was a gift from a colleague back in the late 2010s, when it was already very old. But it runs Plan 9 beautifully :) I've been tinkering with it with the vague idea of switching to it from FreeBSD as a daily driver. I think maybe I could do without Emacs but I just need a "real" Web browser too much to make the switch.
@duncan_bayne does it run fast with the distro you use or is it slow?
Super fast, in fact it's as responsive as my Framework 13 running either Linux or FreeBSD. But it's running 9front, a fork of the Plan 9 operating system - so it's much lighter-weight than either of those OSs.
And modern browsers like Firefox are so slow as to barely usable on that hardware; I was running Haiku on it prior.
@duncan_bayne i kinda had that problem on my thinkpad where its so slow and it cant handle brave so i had to use firefox
Did you get the audio working on it in Haiku? Thats the only thing keeping me from running it on one of my 130s.
Yeah. It just ... worked out of the box on the 200, IIRC.
A fine use for a laptop, I think we can all agree. 10/10, no notes.
Are you from Queensland or do you just have bad taste?
What's the difference?
Born in London, grew up in New Zealand, living in Melbourne. The socks were a gift :)
Love to see plan 9. Is it just on the laptop or do you have a grid?
Just on the laptop.
A true hacker, I see..
Bundy rum 😂