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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:38:10 +0200
From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Building GCC
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:15:29AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > New question: when was GCC for Plan 9 written? Third edition Plan 9?  
> > Here's why: I only had to change one file to compile X11 for Plan 9,  
> > which was developed on Brazil, which became Fourth Edition. I noticed  
> > that some software I wanted to port uses X11R6, the version  
> > available. My goal is to port Qt 4 to Plan 9, and then KDE 4. My idea  
> > is that we can have a lot of Plan 9 software ready for end users in a  
> > short amount of time.
> 
> why use plan 9 at all?  why not just install linux or freebsd?

So rio and the compiler suite are the only good things in plan9?

-- 
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
	-- Robert Louis Stevenson