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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Off the shelves plan9-compatible desktop
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:27:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030218112323.O74014@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ef9380a.0302181010.5b1f969f@posting.google.com>

Everything that would run VMWare at a reasonable speed will do. Mind the
three-button mouse requirement...

Apart from that, I have an IBM NetVista here that runs p9 with less hick-up
than, say, FreeBSD :)

Make sure you get a geforce[23]/vanta video card -- still good for most
games, and it works great under Plan9. You mileage with a geforce4 may vary.

andrey

ps: the new IBM R30+ laptops all come with Radeon7500 graphics. If mine
arrives soon I may report on experiences with that :)

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, jj wrote:

> All,
>
> I am planing on getting a new PC and was really interested in
> intalling plan9 as the OS.
>
> I would prefer to avoid building my own PC from compatible parts. So I
> was wondering if people here had successsfully installed plan 9 on a
> 'off-the-shelves' PC (brand - model) and if they had any advice.
> Sorry for the 'not-even-a-newbie-yet' question and thank you for the
> help.
>
> jj
>


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-18 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-18 18:13 jj
2003-02-18 18:27 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2003-02-18 18:27 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-18 18:29   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-19 15:48     ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-18 18:52   ` George Gensure
2003-02-19  5:04     ` Mark Powers
2003-02-19  9:35   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-02-19 10:07     ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-27 14:08 ` Christian Grothaus
2003-02-27 16:45   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-27 16:23     ` Russ Cox
2003-02-27 16:40       ` Jason Gurtz
2003-02-28  4:35       ` mike
2003-02-19  1:03 okamoto
2003-02-19  1:08 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-19  8:55   ` Philippe Anel
2003-02-19  2:00 okamoto
2003-02-19  2:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-19  2:54 okamoto
2003-02-21  7:18 okamoto
2003-02-21 11:12 ` Derek Fawcus
2003-02-21 15:05 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-21 15:42 ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-21 16:03   ` Richard Miller
2003-02-21 16:08     ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-21 16:58       ` Richard Miller
2003-02-21 16:09     ` nigel
2003-02-21 16:45       ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-21 16:46     ` Russ Cox
2003-02-21 16:50       ` jmk
2003-02-22 11:26       ` Richard Miller
2003-02-23  5:29 okamoto

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