From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <86582FBA-8834-4094-93D6-2A150E53097C@kix.in> From: Anant Narayanan To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:17:19 +0200 References: <13426df10809021609l56513b8u6c287c01fcb89f55@mail.gmail.com> <0a4ac85af523905c8cd1aa93d5f3f302@9netics.com> <13426df10809022042v597800f7g9b974a1f3bc377fe@mail.gmail.com> <71098d81e160f5eaaa9f5bf3e3df2d4a@coraid.com> <556FFDE7-C870-4788-81CD-9DB34358DD60@kix.in> Subject: Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0c385048-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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