> It is a shame that you can't really *do* much with it easily.
Strongly agreed. I think it's vastly impressive but it doesn't do anything I want or need to do, and the things I want and need are not well-suited to it.
> I can imagine it'd be a pain to build, and nobody would really want to invest resources except maybe for a lynx style browser.
A commenter on Lobsters reminds me that there is a port of Netsurf. I think that the last time I looked at 9front -- https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/9front_do_not_install/ -- I spent several hours trying to compile Netsurf, just so that I could add a screenshot to the article showing 9front browsing the Reg.
I failed. As I recall it chugged away for hours and filled up its root partition and fell over.
Credit where it's due: unlike Btrfs this did not corrupt the drive.
I'm a big fan of Oberon and much the same comments apply there, too.
Inferno was a bit easier. I wrote about it (very briefly) about 15Y ago and at that time there were ISOs you could run in a VM, and executables you could run on other OSes. Now, AFAICS, all gone.
I have been trying to contact Vita Nuova to find out more and write about it.
The VNC demo is cool, though. I did not know about that.
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Date: 2024-12-23 01:18 pm (UTC)Strongly agreed. I think it's vastly impressive but it doesn't do anything I want or need to do, and the things I want and need are not well-suited to it.
> I can imagine it'd be a pain to build, and nobody would really want to invest resources except maybe for a lynx style browser.
A commenter on Lobsters reminds me that there is a port of Netsurf. I think that the last time I looked at 9front -- https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/9front_do_not_install/ -- I spent several hours trying to compile Netsurf, just so that I could add a screenshot to the article showing 9front browsing the Reg.
I failed. As I recall it chugged away for hours and filled up its root partition and fell over.
Credit where it's due: unlike Btrfs this did not corrupt the drive.
I'm a big fan of Oberon and much the same comments apply there, too.
Inferno was a bit easier. I wrote about it (very briefly) about 15Y ago and at that time there were ISOs you could run in a VM, and executables you could run on other OSes. Now, AFAICS, all gone.
I have been trying to contact Vita Nuova to find out more and write about it.
The VNC demo is cool, though. I did not know about that.