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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by ori_b on Monday February 20, 2023 @09:31PM (#34875746)
Posted from 9front (using netsurf).

I also run https://shithub.us, which is hosted from plan 9, and more or less needs plan 9 for push access. It uses the hjgit:// protocol for push access, which requires plan9 auth to establish the channel. The fact that there are so many repos up should give a hint at how active the community is.

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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by tombert on Monday February 20, 2023 @11:20PM (#34876537)
Follow up question then: why?

This isn’t meant to come off as judgmental, but a real question. Plan 9 looks pretty neat but I would think that the lack of driver support alone would make it pretty difficult to run for anything.

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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by mburee on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:49AM (#34878070)
The term is 'recreational computing' ;)

But actually most older thinkpads are pretty well supported, you can even get Wifi with OpenBSDs drivers.

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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by ori_b on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:15AM (#34882812)
It's comfortable.
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Re:Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, op... by tombert on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:29PM (#34885763)
Fair enough! I've played a bit with Inferno and Plan 9 inside VMs, but never tried to run it full time. Maybe I should give it a go on one of my spare laptops.
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