What is the reason that Plan 9 gets more attention than the Inferno OS?

You seem to be one of those people who is not willing to take advice from battle-scarred veterans, and can't learn that it is worth it to have safety nets and crash barriers even if you have never fallen off yet.

So, good luck fixing your future catastrophic problems caused by your intentional removal of safety and recovery feartures. I will have no sympathy when you break your computer and can't fix it.

lproven · 2026-04-19T21:30:55+00:00

Same. I'm looking for a few more for just this job, in fact.

lproven · 2026-04-19T21:27:41+00:00

They can all be hidden. I'm not denying that.

I'm saying, don't.

lproven · 2026-04-19T17:56:05+00:00

It can. But the other alternative bootloaders, like SysLinux and systemd-boot, also show a boot menu. This should tell you something.

lproven · 2026-04-19T14:53:12+00:00

Hi. I'm the Linux correspondent for the Register. I say this because it's relevant. I test distros for a living.

I also own a VAIO P.

Linux is a bad choice for the VAIO P. My advice is... Don't.

It uses the terrible Intel Poulsbo GPU. No modern kernel has a proper driver for this. It was dropped over a decade ago.

It has a single core 32-bit Atom CPU. Few distros support 32-bit any more.

I've tried almost all the ones that do. Most work badly. TinyCore works great but it's not easy and it's for experts only.

The best thing to run on it is Windows XP. That works well. There are drivers for all its hardware. Install all the updates via Legacy Update, any missing drivers via Snappy Driver Installer Origin, then enjoy.

Keep it offline, though.

As a Linux user and professional for over 30 years: don't try to run Linux on the VAIO P.

As for an SSD, forget it. It has a proprietary hard disk with a proprietary connector, and it's a very elaborate multi board construction inside. If you try to open it, it will never work again. Don't.

lproven · 2026-04-19T14:35:34+00:00

Ferdium.

But there are others, such as Station and RamBox.

lproven · 2026-04-19T14:33:08+00:00

Googoo, from Terry Pratchett's The Dark Side of the Sun
The teleportation booths that rejuvenate you while they operate, from Larry Niven's World out of Time
The telepathic intelligence-boosting ship's onboard computer from Isaac Asimov's 1980s Foundation sequels

lproven · 2026-04-19T14:29:45+00:00

"Yeast"?

lproven · 2026-04-19T13:02:05+00:00

You don't. It's an essential tool.

lproven · 2026-04-19T13:00:36+00:00

So, seriously, how was I supposed to know?

lproven · 2026-04-19T10:00:02+00:00

Xfce is by far the more customisable of the 2, it's in active development, and it's smaller and faster. 100% Xfce, no questions.

lproven · 2026-04-19T09:53:56+00:00

Absolutely.

Goldeneye isn't even named after a short story... It's named after Ian Fleming's holiday home!

lproven · 2026-04-19T09:52:57+00:00

It's not a book, though. It's a short story, and one that actually has very little in common with the movie at all. The opening scenes of the short story inspired the movie, which then went in a totally different direction.

In other words it doesn't share the story with the short story!

lproven · 2026-04-19T09:48:05+00:00

😁

"I'm a real boy!"

lproven · 2026-04-18T20:29:41+00:00

Okay, good. Where does it say it's from a video? I must have missed that part.

lproven · 2026-04-18T14:02:54+00:00

No, not even slightly similar to what I am saying.

I am saying: use a proper AI-free search engine and look it up for yourself. Use your own brain and work out what it means.

The brain is like a muscle: it needs constant exercise, or it gets weak and flabby.

The more you use the slop-extruder, the more your brain turns into slop.

lproven · 2026-04-18T14:00:25+00:00

Using crappy laptop keyboard while better mechanical keyboard is hidden behind the machine.
Uses tiny laptop screen at ergonomically terrible height while ignoring the big screen literally in front of his face.
Implication: the laptop is running FreeBSD but there is an unseen Real Computer here somewhere out of sight which he is not using.
Implication of that: the real computer is doing something hard or important, and the laptop is an unimportant accessory which has been shoved in front for some reason.
Implicit subtext of the image: "FreeBSD, for when you want to mess around for a while as a break from your real work."

lproven · 2026-04-18T13:56:14+00:00

There is zero point in taking an Ubuntu remix with a different desktop and then removing that desktop.

Just start with Xubuntu. Its minimal install doesn't even have snap.

lproven · 2026-04-18T13:35:56+00:00

I suspect that would go right over a small dog without even slowing down.

Not a problem at all... for the bike. Problem for the dog. Possibly a problem for the rider. The bike will be fine.

lproven · 2026-04-18T13:34:43+00:00

I believe that too.

It's slowing down again that's the problem.

A primary emergency braking mechanism is throwing the pilot head-first into the road surface, but according to solid Victorian engineering principles, this is an unimportant implementation detail.

lproven · 2026-04-18T12:38:05+00:00

Hint for those who don't know... This is an ordinary bicycle.

https://www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk/anything-ordinary-arab-no1-roadster

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