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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:03:05 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Building GCC
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> > > 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?

this is probably the purist in me speaking, but ...

so if you buy a chevy and you add a ford motor, transmission, 
sheet metal, and seats, chevy guys are going to tell you that they
didn't figure you could do worse than ford, but they were wrong.
ford guys are going to tell you that the beauty may be skin deep,
but chevy goes to the bone.

by the way, running kde and x will make running acme and all
other plan 9 graphical applications more difficult.  you'll need
to port p9p draw back from linux.  kde will need an education
to know about plumbing, namespaces. fileservers in the plan9
sense.  maybe you don't use these things.

- erik