On 12/1/05, Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Anyone successful at this at all?
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> I'm about to try -- I'm going to format my linux drive and just go plan
> 9 terminal, and try to see how bad it's going to be.

Hmm, a lot of what I do is remote testing... so if I can get an ssh
session going in vt I can live in plan 9 for a few days at a time.

To my left is a dual G5 PowerMac though for all other tasks... I have
been trying increasingly to avoid swivelling left.  I find the total
lack of eye candy and fully functional web applications makes it
easier for me to focus on my work :)

There's a ton of crap software on every other machine I totally just
don't need.  But there are a few things that I think would make Plan 9
more enjoyable.

* Abaco completion :) [or other web browser... though I really like
abaco so far]
* Virtual desktops... [rio sessions help but really don't quite get it for me].
* More hardware support.  [I wish I had the time to finish that dang
OHCI driver so I could hook up my USB Sound Sticks I have on my mac in
Plan 9... I'm fairly well wed to the whole mac iTunes experience at
this point though so this one is not so important.]

I already do somewhat weird things like hook up my scanner to Windows
XP and use Inferno to move files around to desktops that I send mail
from for reporting expenses for travel.

I might look into messing with Rio... that's the last thing I was
experimenting with on Plan 9 a few months back.

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