From: Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:44:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56a297000907101344g3d84df67y124498890c0fba38@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2781f020907101027t66f89a46v64d1cd08982e79d0@mail.gmail.com>
Heh.. go ahead.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Joseph Stewart<joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for saying what I didn't have the words to say. May I quote you
> forever?
> -joe
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There's nothing wrong with being new. There's nothing wrong with being
>> polite either.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:52 PM, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> At least once a month it happens. We can't escape. We're forever
>>> doomed to get a "Can I use Plan 9 as my desktop OS for web browsing
>>> and watching movies and stuff?" thread every couple weeks, because
>>> people are only willing to spend juuuust enough effort to find the
>>> Plan 9 web page and subscribe to 9fans.
>>>
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:30 AM, André Günther<Andre.G@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> there's a thing called mailing list archives.
>>>> and you know..heh..there's this funny thing..dunno, it's called google
>>>> or
>>>> something.
>>>> what you do is: type some words and then hit return...and wooha it
>>>> searches
>>>> like the whole web. it's magic.
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Lorenzo Bolla wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I've just installed (with few difficulties, I must admit) a fresh Plan9
>>>>> on
>>>>> my Dell Inspiron laptop.
>>>>> I played with it and I'd really like to study it and get used to it.
>>>>> Ideally, I would like to make it my "everyday OS", to do all the nice
>>>>> stuff you can do with a computer (a part from work and study), like
>>>>> browsing
>>>>> the web, watching movies and so on...
>>>>> Is anyone using it for such things?
>>>>> Is there, for example, a decent browser for Plan9 (I haven't found
>>>>> any)?
>>>>> Or a music/movie player?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>> Lorenzo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
>>> reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
>>> Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
>>>
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-10 16:05 Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-10 16:30 ` André Günther
2009-07-10 16:52 ` John Floren
2009-07-10 17:07 ` Noah Evans
2009-07-10 17:27 ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-10 17:46 ` john
2009-07-10 17:49 ` Don Bailey
2009-07-10 21:06 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-10 21:35 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-10 21:46 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-10 21:59 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-10 20:44 ` Noah Evans [this message]
2009-07-10 20:56 ` Don Bailey
2009-07-10 17:30 ` hiro
2009-07-10 17:27 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-10 16:44 ` maht
2009-07-10 17:23 ` Andrés Domínguez
2009-07-10 17:26 ` Don Bailey
2009-07-11 6:26 ` Uriel
2009-07-11 10:03 ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-10 17:25 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-10 17:45 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-10 17:50 ` john
2009-07-10 21:52 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-07-10 22:01 ` john
2009-07-10 22:09 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-07-10 22:10 ` john
2009-07-10 22:37 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-07-10 22:48 ` Jack Johnson
2009-07-10 22:58 ` Andreas Eriksen
2009-07-12 8:20 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-11 10:13 ` sqweek
2009-07-11 18:08 ` Uriel
2009-07-13 8:29 ` sqweek
2009-07-11 20:41 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-07-13 17:09 ` Markus Sonderegger
2009-07-13 11:22 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-13 11:34 ` Bela Valek
2009-07-14 6:39 ` sqweek
2009-07-14 13:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 15:00 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-14 16:28 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-14 16:51 ` Tim Newsham
2009-07-14 17:29 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-14 7:26 ` markus
2009-07-10 17:28 ` Jack Johnson
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