On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM, <j...@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote: > > I'm tired of the perpetual September, after several years of being > polite and pointing people to the wiki and the archives.
You could filter instead of bitching and contributing to the noise. > > Even Ghandi would have eventually gotten sick of people asking, "So, > hey, what's up with this thing you're doing here, and how are the > British involved?" > > Resuming operation as a human Google proxy in 3... 2... 1... > > I use Plan 9 as my desktop for development. I keep a Linux laptop > beside the desktop for running a browser, although I've been fiddling > with linuxemu so I can potentially use just the Plan 9 box. When I'm > at home, I use a Linux box for watching movies and everything else, > although I could do basically everything except web browsing and movie > watching from within Plan 9 there too. > > It's really a pretty good time to start using Plan 9, if you're > willing to put in a little work. fgb's contrib(1) scripts make it > easy to install software, some of which is very useful in migrating > from Linux or interoperating with Linux; I'm using openssh on a daily > basis, I've been using X11 as I experiment with linuxemu, and I just > installed TeX which I'll probably try next time I have to write a > paper. It also feels like the number of users is growing, despite my > increasingly curmudgeonly sentiments (durn kids git orf mah lawn). > We're also gaining recognition in the general OS world and especially > in supercomputing, thanks to the FastOS work. > > I probably said a lot of this last time somebody posted one of these > threads. I'll probably say it again the next time. > > > > > John > >> Thanks for saying what I didn't have the words to say. May I quote you >> forever? >> -joe >> >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Noah Evans <noah.ev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> There's nothing wrong with being new. There's nothing wrong with being >>> polite either. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> >>> On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:52 PM, John Floren <slawmas...@gmail.com> 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, André Günther<andr...@gmx.de> wrote: >>>> >>>>> there's a thing called mailing list archives. >>>>> and you know..heh..there's this funny thing..dunno, it's called google or >>>>> something. >>>>> what you do is: type some words and then hit return...and wooha it >>>>> 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 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 nice >>>>>> stuff you can do with a computer (a part from work and study), 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 any)? >>>>>> Or a music/movie player? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>>> Lorenzo. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "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 >>>> >>>> >>> > > >
