From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:23:23 -0800 Message-ID: From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img Topicbox-Message-UUID: 40ceb218-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 x11 is not that big of an impact on a netbook. I suspect your real problem is some horrible X desktop a la Gnome. Get something like FLWM (very light weight) or Rio and run 9vx in that environment. I've done that and it's very fast. The drawterm-fb had issues and I don't recommend you spending a lot of time to try to find it. ron