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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: How useable is Plan9?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:18:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A968745.54FBAA8F@arl.army.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4vel6.240$L04.27546@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>

Moritz Schmitt wrote:
> Let's assume Plan9 is installed, the hardware is supported and network
> connections are up 'n running. My question is: Is Plan9 ready for the
> every day work? Using Tex is possible, I've heart. What about mail, news,
> www? And software for image manipulation? What is not possible?

Plan 9 is a research platform, not targeted at naive end users.

Plan 9 release 3 comes with nice tools for handling mail and news.
It didn't originally have a Web browser, but people use Charon
under the Inferno subsystem.

What is possible depends on how good a programmer you are,
also on what the user community comes up with.


      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-23 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-23  9:55 [9fans] " Moritz Schmitt
2001-02-23 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]

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