[9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I...

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

Hi,

I'm putting together some questions for a short talk I'm giving on Plan 9
in a couple of weeks. I know the following are going to be asked and I
would like to have some clue how to answer them.

Thanks ahead of time for making the effort in doing what you can to
address any of them. I will post the answers on the Hangar 18 homepage,

http://einstein.ssz.com/hangar18

Now, on with the show...

Q1.	What is the choice with respect to mail mirrors or mailing list
	software like majordomo?

Q2.	What is the usual web server?

Q3.	Is the Plan 9 <> Linux software reliable?

Q4.	What IRC choices (both client and server) are available?

Q5.	How do I play my audio CD's and what mp3 player is suggested?
	Is there any good audio sampling (and pop reduction) software?

Q6.	Are any TV cards supported? Video conferencing software?

Q7.	What about USB support?

Q8.	What about Firewire support?

Q9.	What sorts of packages such as StarOffice are available, if
	any?

Q10.	What about Perl, Python, Rexx, Tcl/Tk, Java, or Prolog?

Q11.	Is there any sort of effort to move the GNU tools to the
	Plan 9 reality?

Q12.	Has anyone done any 3D or r/t avatar work under Plan 9?

Q13.	Assuming there was a group of users who wanted to make available
	a set of file servers. Assume that in this structure are
	multi-media (ie sound, video, text, etc.) files. Are there
	any packages that could be used to manage such a virtual library?

Q14.	Do you think Dreamcast will be helpful to the growth of Plan 9?

Q15.	What sort of RDBMS, especially multimedia, is available?

Q16.	Assuming a small group wished to do a custom distribution, how
	would they go about licensing it with Bell Labs? Would it even
	really be necessary under the current license? Would there be
	any advantages/disadvantages either way?

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