From: "Rogelio Serrano" <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Novice
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 17:14:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9951d2a0705080214w10532d5awc2e070df5e18af71@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178557330.518474.62590@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On 5/8/07, isliguezze@gmail.com <isliguezze@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm novice to Plan9 OS, but I liked it when I read about it
> "simpleness".
> However when I downloaded the distribution, I couldn't install it on
> my
> HP notebook because of lack of drivers.
> Couldn't their team just take OpenBSD drivers (which are open-source)
> and adopt them for Plan9
>
its not that simple. the kernel has a different structure. and they
use a c compiler that is a little different than gcc. i like it more
than gcc though.
doesn't the license might make you nervous?
>
> Best regards, Islam I.
>
--
the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 8:56 isliguezze
2007-05-08 9:14 ` Rogelio Serrano [this message]
2007-05-08 11:22 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-08 12:59 ` [9fans] Novice isliguezze
2007-05-08 13:27 ` erik quanstrom
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