From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:26:09 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dafe024c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I don't know if it's because of bashfulness or what that people aren't telling it to your face: Plan 9 is not intended for home or home office. It hasn't matured to that point and its age is already past when it had a chance to mature. From what I've read on this list it probably serves as the back-end so some useful SOHO (and embedded?) applications, in addition to research and probably industrial use, but I don't think it's the front-end to any. These people who use it--I don't--all are either very much interested in computer systems or simply students, professors, researchers, and/or employees in the field. You can try using Plan 9--I did and was dejected because learning about computers is for me only a pleasant aside to actual use of computers--but I don't think you can get much from it by way of productivity, unless you intend to get productive in software engineering and/or computer science. --On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:05 PM +0800 Jim Habegger wrote: > We have three Windows laptops in our family. I've been using free > software systems off and on for years. Last week I learned about Plan > 9 from Bell Labs, from someone in a Linux Questions forum. Now I have > it installed on a partition on my laptop, along with XP, > Ubuntu-on-NTFS, Debian, and Slackware. I've learned to access a fat > partition, change the font size, and use Acme. Now I need to learn how > to set up a wireless connection to the family router network, access > my files on my wife's Vista laptop, and browse the Internet. > > My wireless card is not listed in Plan9.ini. Does that mean there's no > way for me to connect with that card? > > I'd like to learn how much I can use Plan 9 for home office, > multimedia and Internet socializing, then I'd like to experiment with > distributing the system between computers. I've learned about as much > as I can for now from the documentation on the Plan 9 site, except for > how to connect to the network. I'm waiting to find out if it's even > possible. > > Now I'm listing /bin, reading man pages, and practicing commands. > After that I might have some questions. Meanwhile, does anyone have > any suggestions about learning to use Plan 9 for home office, > multimedia and Internet socializing, and then to learn more about > networking and distributed systems? >