[9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Habegger
We have three Windows laptops in our family. I've been using free software systems off and on for years. Last week I learned about Plan 9 from Bell Labs, from someone in a Linux Questions forum. Now I have it installed on a partition on my laptop, along with XP, Ubuntu-on-NTFS, Debian, and

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
My wireless card is not listed in Plan9.ini. Does that mean there's no way for me to connect with that card? Hi ! What type of wireless card you have -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Plan 9 in the home... an interesting experiment. (I am the only one in my home who uses it.) Enjoy! My message contains references to files in /n/sources/contrib. When you get your internet up in Plan 9, use 9fs sources to gain access to this folder. PostScript and PDF files can

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
I don't think there are video players. Someone created an ffmpeg port, but I'm not sure if it does video output or just conversion as I've never actually used it. --dho

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: juke(6) for how to go about playing music. that should be juke(7), sorry.

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Andrés Domínguez
2009/4/14 Jim Habegger jimhabeg...@gmail.com: My wireless card is not listed in Plan9.ini. Does that mean there's no way for me to connect with that card? The easy way is to run Plan9 inside a virtual machine like qemu on Linux or Windows. Andrés

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Habegger
Thanks to everyone for all the information and ideas! At first I was going to try to make Plan 9 my all-purpose system on this laptop, but for now it looks like I'll just be using it to learn more about networking and distributed systems. I've tried using virtual machines in Windows before to run

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread maht
* * My Internet socializing now is mostly: - email - calling people with Skype - reading and commenting in blogs - posting in my own blogs - reading and posting in the Linux Questions forums - reading and posting on this list - Facebook better keep another system handy, fully

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Look at - http://9fans.net/archive/2008/10/304 Plan9 hardware support is limited to those that plan9 users have. -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Habegger
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Sergey Zhilkin szhil...@gmail.com wrote: Look at - http://9fans.net/archive/2008/10/304 Plan9 hardware support is limited to those that plan9 users have. Well, now there's a Plan 9 user with Atheros 5K. I suppose I could try to port ath5k myself. I had some