From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1AFD45A2-8365-4475-9E0F-E7ABE4596AE4@gmx.de> References: <80c99e790907100905x223b40ddjd8c9f784264b4922@mail.gmail.com> <1AFD45A2-8365-4475-9E0F-E7ABE4596AE4@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:52:38 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220907100952r4565108x4a9db6cc6635cec8@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a46d3b6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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, Andr=C3=A9 G=C3=BCnther wr= ote: > 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 search= es > 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 brow= sing >> 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. > > > --=20 "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