> I guess the need for running "configure" first is gone > here.
Most definitely. [Editorial comment on configure elided] > I'm having trouble finding info on how to mount a thumb > drive. If you are running usbd, it should detect when you insert the drive and run usb/disk for it. This will make the "disk" available in /dev/sdUn.m/ and the usbfat: script will mount a FAT partition on such a drive. See usb(4) and usbd(4) for more details. > I don't > know why since this OS (I might presume) isn't geared > toward the daily/ > desktop @ home user. Instant messaging, There is an IRC client or two floating around, and I'm pretty sure there's a tool to gateway some of the other IM services through it. (However, you might need Inferno for the latter part; my memory is a little hazy on that.) > burning CD/DVD Plan 9 has a very elegant approach to burning CDs. See cdfs(4) and mk9660(8) for the details. > Maybe I just love the bunny :) I thought about installing > the 9tools > (including rio) right here in my home-sweet-home BSD land, > but there's > certainly nothing better than the real thing. It can be quite useful to do both, and to throw 9vx in for good measure. For example, I run FreeBSD on my laptop and use p9p (9tools) to get a lot of what it has. Then I run 9vx on FreeBSD to give me what's pretty close to a real Plan 9 terminal. Using its -b option, I have it connect to my file server which is running Plan 9 directly. 9vx looks like a terminal talking to the file server and also has access to the FreeBSD name space. Conversely, using the p9p tools (and some experimental fs stuff I'm working on) FreeBSD can see what's on my file server. It's about as close as I've gotten so far to being the best of both worlds. BLS
