From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <144325.4665.qm@web30903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:00:45 -0700 From: rbnsw-plan9@yahoo.com.au To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [9fans] Living with Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed316164-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Is there anybody out there using Plan 9 as their primary operating system f= or typical user tasks such as web browsing, word processing etc. I'm shopping for a new operating system for my trailing edge hardware, and = my heart and my head cannot agree on how much effort I should devote into a= dopting Plan 9. I'd like to have an easy life but I am somewhat driven to m= inimise the "ugliness" that I have to deal with on my systems.=20 I do most of my computing on low spec laptops and occasionally want to remo= tely run apps or access files on a higher spec PC. Unfortunately, I find th= at remote X11 is mostly less than satisfactory on my home ethernet let alon= e on 802.11b. (To think people once claimed X was satisfactory on 128kbps).= Perhaps compression or VNC might improve things. Then of course, there is = remote access to other peripherals. Or rather the lack of it.=20 I am old enough to remember RFS the Remote File Sharing Protocol on SVR4 th= at offered access to remote devices, but I don't have that and I'm not awar= e of whether there are any distributed file protocols freely available for= *nix that do that. Of course, there are clients and servers for most perip= herals to allow remote access but one needs to go to some effort to set thi= s up and hope that whatever software one uses can be coaxed into using the = appropriate client... I know Plan 9 solves these issues and more, but hardware and software suppo= rt is lacking. I note there is a Linux user binary emulation and X11 avail= able. Is it sufficient to set up a Linux environment on Plan 9 including al= l the niceties offered by Linux modern distribution? Does this completely d= efeat the purpose of using Plan9 in the first place ? If it makes sense, I'= d appreciate some guidance in this regard. If not, some suggestions on how = to best live with *nix ugliness would be welcome. Thanks, Andrew