porting linux programs and drivers to plan9

[Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org]

>
>For others who don't have endless computers kicking around, if the
>pcdist had a free pppclient, a large documentation library, and a
>commonly recognized editor (can we agree on microemacs?) plan 9 would
>not be as much of a shock to new users.

My vote is for Microemacs. It may not be as good as what Plan9
has to offer, but until versions of a Plan9 editor is available for Unix,
OS-9000, OS-9/68K, DOS (just for editting plan9.ini of course..),
VMS, etc....  and every other system I have to use, Microemacs seems the
best candidate for a 'Universal' editor. Vi would be an alternative I could
live with, but having to use 'ed' when using Plan9 for the first time
was a bit tiresome.

My other requirement for making Plan9 a viable replacement for my
'workhorse' system is the ability to run X clients (so I can use
Plan9 from the X-Terminal on my desk..I don't like having to sit next
to a whirring disk drive in order to get graphics) and an X server
so my Plan9 laptop can be used as for remote access of foreign
systems.

I have seen reference to a '9x' which sounds like it would fulfill my
first desire, but have not been able to locate it. Any pointers?

I have also seen an X server demonstrated on Plan9 in one of
Rob Pike's presentations some years ago. However I have not
seen any mention of this in the FAQ or archives. Anyone
know anything about this?

As far as the floppy distribution goes, I think manuals would
be a bit of an extravagence for a 'minimal' system.

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
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