From: "Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie Questions
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:06:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82c890d00706010206g1ca5be37tabceae166a2192ee@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180635957.339055.285650@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
hello
>
> 1. How do you port unix software to Plan 9, or is that not possible?
two ways, modifying the source app to be plan9 compatible, or use ape.
> 2. Is the development of this system is still going? Drivers being
> updated...etc.etc...or is the project dead..and is left for the
> community to do it for them selves like the BeOS
there is development going on by the community, some get paid to work
directly on plan9, others not.
> 3. Is there a fully Featured web broswer - eg firefox?? available...or
> is it just really basic text browsers
no
> 4. Can this system play media files...like .avi...divx....
there are attempts to build xvid and ffmpeg, i saw xvid working
> 5. There is gcc for plan 9 right??
>
Plan9 already have great compilers, so leave gcc in lunix better. (and
if you can)
> I know all these questions seem a bit crazy for an ancient system
> thats hasn't really caught on with the general whole computer
> world....and its only being used as an OS research platform for the
> computer science researchers....but it would be cool to have such an
> unknown system to work...it just makes you kinda special..everyone
> will be using linux bsd, windows or mac...and I'll be like....I'm a
> plan 9 user...lol....bet I'll get stared at! most of the will say
> "WHAT THE HECK IS PLAN 9"
>
it's a reason like any other, but you will end in nothing following that path.
gabi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 8:44 chutsu
2007-06-01 9:06 ` Gabriel Diaz [this message]
2007-06-01 11:17 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-01 15:25 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-01 15:33 ` Laurent Malvert
2007-06-01 15:39 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-01 15:46 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-01 16:06 ` Laurent Malvert
2007-06-01 16:09 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-01 18:07 ` Laurent Malvert
2007-06-04 9:08 ` [9fans] " chutsu
2007-06-04 9:33 ` W B Hacker
2007-06-01 17:23 ` [9fans] " Kris Maglione
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-18 1:14 [9fans] Newbie questions Terry Wendt
2013-09-18 5:42 ` Deepak Chawla
2013-09-18 8:02 ` Richard Miller
2013-09-18 8:23 ` Jens Staal
2013-09-18 12:41 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-19 14:02 ` Matthew Veety
2007-12-07 9:58 Bob
2007-12-07 12:17 ` Steve Simon
2007-12-07 14:33 ` C H Forsyth
2007-06-01 8:44 [9fans] Newbie Questions chutsu
2007-06-01 10:40 ` cej
2001-02-08 22:21 [9fans] Newbie questions forsyth
2001-02-09 9:40 ` Michael Collins
2001-02-09 15:36 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-08 19:29 anothy
2001-02-07 21:05 Russ Cox
2001-02-08 9:42 ` Michael Collins
2001-02-07 19:05 Russ Cox
2001-02-07 18:13 ` mike
2001-02-08 9:42 ` Michael Collins
2001-02-07 18:12 nigel
2001-02-07 17:21 Russ Cox
2001-02-07 17:04 Russ Cox
2001-02-07 17:53 ` mike
2001-02-07 10:08 nigel
2001-02-07 9:46 Michael Collins
2001-02-07 17:13 ` Lucio De Re
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