From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil White To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] So What is P9 good for..... Message-ID: <20030213101129.GA8988@littlegreenmen.armory.com> References: <6ef76860.0302121402.3a63f201@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6ef76860.0302121402.3a63f201@posting.google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:11:29 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5b64f53a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Kinda funny. We had a similar question on the 9fans list. The draw of it is that it's probably the most complete take on a distributed operating system built from the ground up with completely new concepts. As someone on 9fans put it, it's an entry not into the market, but into the market of ideas. The applications that exist for it are those which fans port for it. Several things have been ported from *nix over to plan9. It's not necessarily something that you use instead of Linux or FreeBSD; it's something you use alongside Linux or FreeBSD. If youre having problems installing it, there's two main options. One is to use VMWare (Russ Cox uses VMWare to run plan 9). The other is to get an account from Hangar 18 or my system (the Armory plan9 network) when we open it up (Probably in a few weeks). -Phil/CERisE On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:37:58AM +0000, Jeffrey Haun wrote: > I ask this in all seriousness...After visiting the main page at bell > labs, and reading from the links there, I'm sorta missing the point of > Plan 9. The interface is nice. But applications are sparce. What is > the draw of thie OS. I tried to install it. But the hardware I have is > not supported. So why go to the trouble. Why does the bunny not die??? > Why do YOU use Plan 9 and not Linux/FreeBSD?