From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <34bb558e805aaf26b6ce2dd8bbc6fcee@quintile.net> References: <34bb558e805aaf26b6ce2dd8bbc6fcee@quintile.net> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:28:03 -0600 Message-ID: From: Blake McBride To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf303344f9b2c48b04ed97b1b9 Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c0f9538-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --20cf303344f9b2c48b04ed97b1b9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Linux, android, Windows, and iOS all reached a critical mass in terms of programmer and end-user apps in order to survive. Plan-9 did not. A quality web browser on Plan-9 is critical to its usefullness by many. But this is just one major piece among many. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > I have no desire to develope c++ code on plan9 but if there was a simple > way to > cross compile c++ applications for plan9 that would be great - firefox > being > the obvious one. > > This has been done to death, and the closest we ever came to it (IMHO) was > cinap's linuxemu - this allowed you to run the linux firefox, or even opera > on plan9. I required the use of fgb's x11 port as a display engine, and so > it is perhaps not the most minimal solution however it works. > > -Steve > > --20cf303344f9b2c48b04ed97b1b9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Linux, android, Windows, and iOS= all reached a critical mass in terms of programmer and end-user apps in or= der to survive. =A0Plan-9 did not. =A0A quality web browser on Plan-9 is cr= itical to its usefullness by many. =A0But this is just one maj= or piece among many.


On Sun, Dec 1= 5, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:=
I have no desire to develope c++ code on plan9 but if there was a simple wa= y to
cross compile c++ applications for plan9 that would be great - firefox bein= g
the obvious one.

This has been done to death, and the closest we ever came to it (IMHO) was<= br> cinap's linuxemu - this allowed you to run the linux firefox, or even o= pera
on plan9. I required the use of fgb's x11 port as a display engine, and= so
it is perhaps not the most minimal solution however it works.

-Steve


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