From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:44:31 +0000 From: "chutsu@gmail.com" Message-ID: <1180635957.339055.285650@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: [9fans] Newbie Questions Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7684373e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi Pretty new to this plan 9 OS...have absolutely no experience. Here are my questions 1. How do you port unix software to Plan 9, or is that not possible? 2. Is the development of this system is still going? Drivers being updated...etc.etc...or is the project dead..and is left for the community to do it for them selves like the BeOS 3. Is there a fully Featured web broswer - eg firefox?? available...or is it just really basic text browsers 4. Can this system play media files...like .avi...divx.... 5. There is gcc for plan 9 right?? I know all these questions seem a bit crazy for an ancient system thats hasn't really caught on with the general whole computer world....and its only being used as an OS research platform for the computer science researchers....but it would be cool to have such an unknown system to work...it just makes you kinda special..everyone will be using linux bsd, windows or mac...and I'll be like....I'm a plan 9 user...lol....bet I'll get stared at! most of the will say "WHAT THE HECK IS PLAN 9" Chris