From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Noah Evans To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <7d3530220907100952r4565108x4a9db6cc6635cec8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5G77) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:07:59 +0200 References: <80c99e790907100905x223b40ddjd8c9f784264b4922@mail.gmail.com> <1AFD45A2-8365-4475-9E0F-E7ABE4596AE4@gmx.de> <7d3530220907100952r4565108x4a9db6cc6635cec8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a50d244-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 There's nothing wrong with being new. There's nothing wrong with =20 being polite either. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:52 PM, John Floren wrote: > 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= wrot=20 > e: >> there's a thing called mailing list archives. >> and you know..heh..there's this funny thing..dunno, it's called =20 >> google or >> something. >> what you do is: type some words and then hit return...and wooha it =20= >> searches >> 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 =20= >>> 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 =20 >>> nice >>> stuff you can do with a computer (a part from work and study), =20 >>> like browsing >>> 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 =20= >>> 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 >