Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

[Don Bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com>]

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"And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as
you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it
to me."

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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