From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60512020914h48ab9343lc3bdaf9b2a0e9ae1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:14:48 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9con in Madrid? In-Reply-To: <438F1863.10907@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <599f06db0511220609v2de30122jdc22da1d10730ace@mail.gmail.com> <82c890d00511220712h180e73dfs@mail.gmail.com> <599f06db0511220716h78a9953eied442e5395ab5673@mail.gmail.com> <43834D99.5020808@lanl.gov> <20051130010547.GK9980@server4.lensbuddy.com> <438D89D9.1090306@anvil.com> <438DBDA7.8080703@lanl.gov> <8413367b0512010316l7d309d3cg25d88d84ba507dc4@mail.gmail.com> <438F1863.10907@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b52873b2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/1/05, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > grfgguvf@gmail.com wrote: > > > Anyone successful at this at all? > > I'm about to try -- I'm going to format my linux drive and just go plan > 9 terminal, and try to see how bad it's going to be. Hmm, a lot of what I do is remote testing... so if I can get an ssh session going in vt I can live in plan 9 for a few days at a time. To my left is a dual G5 PowerMac though for all other tasks... I have been trying increasingly to avoid swivelling left. I find the total lack of eye candy and fully functional web applications makes it easier for me to focus on my work :) There's a ton of crap software on every other machine I totally just don't need. But there are a few things that I think would make Plan 9 more enjoyable. * Abaco completion :) [or other web browser... though I really like abaco so far] * Virtual desktops... [rio sessions help but really don't quite get it for = me]. * More hardware support. [I wish I had the time to finish that dang OHCI driver so I could hook up my USB Sound Sticks I have on my mac in Plan 9... I'm fairly well wed to the whole mac iTunes experience at this point though so this one is not so important.] I already do somewhat weird things like hook up my scanner to Windows XP and use Inferno to move files around to desktops that I send mail from for reporting expenses for travel. I might look into messing with Rio... that's the last thing I was experimenting with on Plan 9 a few months back.