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Subject: [9fans] Re: How useable is Plan9?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:18:36 +0000
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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.