Re: [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I...

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

In article <200102080105.UAA03200@smtp3.fas.harvard.edu> you write:
>	Q3.	Is the Plan 9 <> Linux software reliable?
>
>I don't understand the question.

I won't add much to this, except to state that I've found Drawterm
pretty unreliable.  It's a lot better to run an actual Plan 9 terminal.

>troff, tex, gs, basically what you'd expect.
>I write my presentations in Postscript, but I'm an outlier.

``This is a manly lab, and we write manly papers in a manly page
  description, in a manly way....''

Umm, apologies to the uptown guys at Saturday Night Live.
LES represent.

>Rexx no.

Seriously?  Rexx?  Wow.

>Prolog no.  (Someone is going to ask you about Prolog?  Really?)

Not terribly surprising.  Prolog is kind of cool.

One solution to that is to try and port Terzo, which is an
implementation of Lambda prolog.  It's written in SML, and might come
over with the Moscow ML port....  It probably requires the compiler
component, though, which isn't un Russ' port.  I got it to work on my
system without too much hassle, though (the Moscow ML compiler that is;
I haven't tried to port Terzo, which uses the SML/NJ compilation system,
which I think is included in mosml).

>	Q11.	Is there any sort of effort to move the GNU tools to the
>		Plan 9 reality?
>
>No, for the same reason there is no sort of effort to herd wild water buffalo
>into major metropolitan areas.

:-)

>	Q15.	What sort of RDBMS, especially multimedia, is available?
>
>Someone mentioned something on 9fans about having
>some database up and running.  A friend was interviewing
>at Oracle a few weeks ago and in Oracle's boasts about the
>portability of their server they said they had even brought
>it up on Plan 9 recently.  I doubt this is going to be the cornerstone
>of a new business plan.

Oracle is very portable, but they only release versions for
very specific platforms.  Kenji ported the postgres monitor
onto Plan 9, check out:

	http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/p9index.html.

Unfortunately for mere mortals such as I, most of the associated
documentation is in Japanese.  :-)  It's not the whole DBMS, just
the client part, but it might help out.

	- Dan C.