From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EE8EEF9.1040306@ameritech.net> From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - Should I try it? References: <20030612085440.GA29207@littlegreenmen.armory.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:22:01 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ca1a62f8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > >>>From my (mostly vicarious) experience, Plan 9 is not a trivial setup. >However, I don't think it's going to be better developed anytime soon. >Of course, I'm pretty far from the pulse of what's going on with plan 9. >I'd say that it makes a fine project for fun. > Plan9's setup is becoming easier and easier. After I wrote a (very shabby) HOWTO on installing plan9 without rio, they made a text-only install option. Video cards support is growing and you no longer must have your specific card's info as the first ctlr (which helps autodetect video cards if the DID/VIDs and ROMline match). So, yes, things are getting much better. Plan 9 is definitely worth the small challenge of installation. In fact, it may make you a better hacker for your buck ;) It did me... Don http://deadchildren.org/~north_ >