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Date: Sun,  5 Jan 2014 22:41:30 -0600
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From: Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?
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On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
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> On Jan 5, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There are a few of us that still hold out hope for the Labs
>> distribution.
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> But realistically, for how much longer?  The past year has shown the love is gone.  I haven't been able to run a labs distribution on physical hardware for years.  Nor on virtual hardware.  It's time to choose a new king ...

Works fine for me on a variety of x86 hardware. At the moment I use
Pineview D525 boards with no trouble at all. If I happen to run into
hardware that's not supported, I write a driver. Honestly, it's the
same business you get with any other distribution. I don't
particularly care for kings myself, I like using what works for me.

Steve