From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 17:14:46 +0800 From: "Rogelio Serrano" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Novice In-Reply-To: <1178557330.518474.62590@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1178557330.518474.62590@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f6d8078-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/8/07, 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