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From: Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] bounty for 9pi update for 9front
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:25:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1536938736.1039670.1508243104.0CD6D7E8@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16562DBA-CB0E-4262-996D-53CD54280CA7@quintile.net>

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> good grief.

Most of that was my penchant for melodrama, but still... 

> i use richard’s plan9 package and has been solid 

Did you get lucky, or did you buy hardware to compensate for the Pi's poor design?

> this may be the lack of graphics acceleration (fixable)

Some second-hand Thinkpads don't need graphics acceleration to have good performance, but VNC isn't perfect with modern web browsers and video even at 1Gbps.  ("Some":  It apparently depends whether the BIOS disables caching for the video region.  If it does, performance dies.)

> or the “ethernet 
> over usb” on the pi

I wrote my melodrama still imagining Pi 2 & 3 had real ethernet...

Anyway, I am apparently quite depressed today, so I'm sorry.  It's not a good time of year for me.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-14 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-12  5:27 Antoni Sawicki
2018-09-13  0:47 ` [9front] " Chris McGee
2018-09-13  6:10   ` Steve Simon
2018-09-13  8:07     ` hiro
2018-09-13 10:18       ` Antoni Sawicki
2018-09-13 12:13       ` Steve Simon
2018-09-13 13:29 ` Julius Schmidt
2018-09-13 15:01   ` Steve Simon
2018-09-13 17:40     ` Chris McGee
2018-09-14 12:29       ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-14 13:39         ` Steve Simon
2018-09-14 15:25           ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2018-09-13 20:29   ` Antoni Sawicki
2018-10-21 23:45 cinap_lenrek
2019-01-10 17:55 sl

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