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Date: Fri,  1 Jun 2007 11:06:47 +0200
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
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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