From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Some questions concerning Plan 9 References: From: Matthias Teege In-Reply-To: (Hanman's message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:11:15 GMT") Message-ID: <86k77rq52q.fsf@gic.mteege.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:09:17 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 554d6546-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hanman 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 =ABmail=BB and browse the web with infernos charon. Bis dann Matthias --=20 Matthias Teege -- http://www.mteege.de make world not war PGP-Key auf Anfrage