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From: Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post
Date: Wed,  3 Sep 2008 20:17:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86582FBA-8834-4094-93D6-2A150E53097C@kix.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eaf669231b45e6214bb543dc320edfe4@coraid.com>

On 03-Sep-08, at 7:45 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>>>> for me, it's the same thing over and over again. drivers.
>>>
>>> what drivers are the problem?
>>
>> Any ethernet or video card that Plan 9 doesn't support (there are
>> plenty).
>
> surely you don't own *all* the unsupported cards?

No, but I use a Macbook Pro, and I have friends who would like to run
Plan 9 but can't because of the hardware they own. Think of Glendix as
a stop-gap solution until they get new hardware or until more drivers
are written for Plan 9 :-)

--
Anant




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02 23:09 ron minnich
2008-09-02 23:22 ` Uriel
2008-09-02 23:43   ` ron minnich
2008-09-03  1:38 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-09-03  3:42   ` ron minnich
2008-09-03 13:02     ` erik quanstrom
2008-09-03 17:40       ` Anant Narayanan
2008-09-03 17:45         ` erik quanstrom
2008-09-03 18:06           ` lucio
2008-09-03 18:17           ` Anant Narayanan [this message]
2008-09-03 21:12             ` Latchesar Ionkov
2008-09-03 22:03               ` ron minnich
2008-09-03 22:19                 ` Geoffrey Avila
2008-09-04  2:52                 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2008-09-04  5:47                   ` lucio
2008-09-04  6:10                     ` hiro
2008-09-04 14:51                     ` Michaelian Ennis
2008-09-04 15:15                       ` erik quanstrom
2008-09-05  4:27                       ` lucio
2008-09-04 14:52                     ` Tim Wiess
2008-09-05  4:25                       ` lucio
2008-09-04 23:03                     ` dave.l
2008-09-04 23:18                       ` ron minnich
2008-09-05  0:41                       ` Uriel
2008-09-05  0:44                         ` Uriel
2008-09-05  3:22                           ` ron minnich
2008-09-05  4:33                       ` lucio
2008-09-05  8:59                         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-09-05 13:59                           ` David Leimbach
2008-09-05 15:36                           ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2008-09-05 15:31                             ` ron minnich
2008-09-05 16:03                       ` Zak B. Elep
2008-09-05 16:41                         ` ron minnich
2008-09-03 21:13       ` Latchesar Ionkov

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