I'm tired of the perpetual September, after several years of being polite and pointing people to the wiki and the archives.
Even Ghandi would have eventually gotten sick of people asking, "So, hey, what's up with this thing you're doing here, and how are the British involved?" Resuming operation as a human Google proxy in 3... 2... 1... I use Plan 9 as my desktop for development. I keep a Linux laptop beside the desktop for running a browser, although I've been fiddling with linuxemu so I can potentially use just the Plan 9 box. When I'm at home, I use a Linux box for watching movies and everything else, although I could do basically everything except web browsing and movie watching from within Plan 9 there too. It's really a pretty good time to start using Plan 9, if you're willing to put in a little work. fgb's contrib(1) scripts make it easy to install software, some of which is very useful in migrating from Linux or interoperating with Linux; I'm using openssh on a daily basis, I've been using X11 as I experiment with linuxemu, and I just installed TeX which I'll probably try next time I have to write a paper. It also feels like the number of users is growing, despite my increasingly curmudgeonly sentiments (durn kids git orf mah lawn). We're also gaining recognition in the general OS world and especially in supercomputing, thanks to the FastOS work. I probably said a lot of this last time somebody posted one of these threads. I'll probably say it again the next time. John > Thanks for saying what I didn't have the words to say. May I quote you > forever? > -joe > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Noah Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's nothing wrong with being new. There's nothing wrong with being >> polite either. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:52 PM, John Floren <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> At least once a month it happens. We can't escape. We're forever >>> doomed to get a "Can I use Plan 9 as my desktop OS for web browsing >>> and watching movies and stuff?" thread every couple weeks, because >>> people are only willing to spend juuuust enough effort to find the >>> Plan 9 web page and subscribe to 9fans. >>> >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:30 AM, André Günther<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> there's a thing called mailing list archives. >>>> and you know..heh..there's this funny thing..dunno, it's called google or >>>> something. >>>> what you do is: type some words and then hit return...and wooha it >>>> searches >>>> like the whole web. it's magic. >>>> >>>> On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Lorenzo Bolla wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>>> I've just installed (with few difficulties, I must admit) a fresh Plan9 >>>>> on >>>>> my Dell Inspiron laptop. >>>>> I played with it and I'd really like to study it and get used to it. >>>>> Ideally, I would like to make it my "everyday OS", to do all the nice >>>>> stuff you can do with a computer (a part from work and study), like >>>>> browsing >>>>> the web, watching movies and so on... >>>>> Is anyone using it for such things? >>>>> Is there, for example, a decent browser for Plan9 (I haven't found any)? >>>>> Or a music/movie player? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> Lorenzo. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS >>> reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, >>> Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba >>> >>> >>
