[9fans] Some questions concerning Plan 9

[9fans] Some questions concerning Plan 9

[Hanman]

Hallo,
at first, I'm sorry for my broken english, but I'm still learning.

I'm thinking about installing Plan 9, to have a stable and secure OS
for surfing in the WWW, writting some (text-) files, learning more
about C and networks and hanging up in IRC Chans (list not in order
haha).

1. For whom is Plan 9? For programmers only or "normal" users, too?
2. Are there lists about hardware support?
3. How much software is avaibel?

Regards,
Hanno

Re: [9fans] Some questions concerning Plan 9

[Matthias Teege]

Hanman <Han.man@gmx.de> writes:

> I'm thinking about installing Plan 9, to have a stable and secure OS
> for surfing in the WWW, writting some (text-) files, learning more
> about C and networks and hanging up in IRC Chans (list not in order
> haha).

For that you can use Plan9 but I dont know about IRC.

> 1. For whom is Plan 9? For programmers only or "normal" users, too?

Not for "normal" but for users. If you know, how to make address
administration with editor, cat and grep you are welcome.

> 2. Are there lists about hardware support?

Yes,
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html

> 3. How much software is avaibel?

Enough, for your tasks you need a editor, compiler, make,
debugger. You can read mail with «mail» and browse the web with
infernos charon.

Bis dann
Matthias

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Re: [9fans] Some questions concerning Plan 9

[David Presotto]

You would have to also install the vita nuova Inferno emu
if you want to surf the web.