Plan 9 finally comes to the POWER9


A great announcement today from the 9front team: ongoing support for ppc64. Today's release finally brings the groundbreaking Plan 9 operating system to our platform as a preferred architecture, with big endian a first-class citizen. It's idiosyncratic, sometimes baffling and at times deliberately outright user-hostile, but now you have a choice of operating systems and can truly use our refreshingly different computers with a refreshingly different user interface paradigm. I'm downloading and installing it on the Blackbird right now and I'll report back with a full review in detail.

Also, I'm well aware of the calendar, thanks.

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  1. Well, isn’t this a nice surprise. I’m guessing GPU support is probably not going to extend to latter-day Radeons, but I just freed up a little SATA SSD… This could be fun to dual-boot alongside Fedora. Thank you! What a nice surprise.

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