[9fans] Plan9 - Should I try it?

[Andrei Maxim <acmax@xnet.ro>]

Hello group,

I've read a while a go the `Maximum Security' book as I was looking
for more info about computers and some decent read during a long
Amsterdam-Toronto flight. For the first time ever, I found some
reference related to the Plan9 OS. As I grabbed the first computer
with Internet access, I looked over Plan9's docs and I became more and
more intrigued.

In a couple of months I will be upgrading my Internet connection and I
will have a stable 128 kbps transfer rate. My question is: should I
give it a try right now or wait till it's better developed?

I want to install it over an old computer, a 366 MHz Celeron with 64
MB RAM. The hard-disk is a Seagate Barracuda III with 30 GB. The modem
is a 33.6 Kbps Rockwell model. On the main-board I have an integrated
Yamaha OPL3 sound-card. The video card is an Intel i740 one.

Thanks for your patience!

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