I dual boot OpenBSD on it, and it's been doing fine. The out of the box experience is pretty bare although the default window manager cwm is surprisingly nice once you get to know it. Note that apmd, the power management daemon used to manage CPU speed and low-battery suspend, is not enabled by default. The high-DPI screen required some adjustments in Xresources (I haven't dared try a multi-monitor, mixed DPI setup).
NetBSD seemed okay to but I've only used it a little bit. It actually set up X pretty well for the screen using some built in script with heuristics to determine font size from the screen metrics.
A 'charade'? Just having some fun running NetBSD on unusual hardware and learning something along the way. There's no cheating some imaginary game you seem to think I'm participating in.
It would be a fun project to do a homebrew HTTP server (and I wouldn't be surprised if it had been done already) but in this case I actually mean to replace my Pi 'home server' with this Wii, and for that I want SSH, git, web, mail, and all that, so practically, NetBSD was a good option.
There's also the fact that there's a modern, up-to-date Unix distribution for this in the first place, how cool is that.
I meant to replace it with IP forwarding from a secondary IPv4 address on another host running OpenBSD, but I haven't been able to get that to work yet. Perhaps any OpenBSD/pf folk here have an idea? This is my config (where in the real file the variables are literals):
pass in on egress inet to $secondary_ipv4 \
af-to inet6 from $ipv6 to 2a02:a45f:8eaa::2/128
All I get is timeouts and traceroutes with infinite hops. First I tried rdr-to, but that complains of the address family mismatch.
Thanks! Note that I don’t have much experience writing Win32 apps so the code might not be top quality.
The universal lib is interesting for future work (the compiler inlined the few things I needed). For Win32s support generating a position-independent executable was the only problematic bit, but that's not an issue for libraries.
That’s cool! Windows’ backwards compatibility is amazing. It also allows for feature detection so a program can work on 3.11 but also look and feel native on 10.
It’s a simple utility but it works on Windows 3.11 (with Win32s) and up, but supporting high DPI, font scaling, and theming on Windows versions that support it.
> The cool thing isn't so much os9map (yes it's cool)
OS9Map is absolutely the cool thing here, especially if you consider the platform lacks basics such as TLS and JSON parsing.