(Prob. OT) Plan 9

Just curious is anyone has fooled with Plan 9.

I've recently installed it


http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:31:02 +0100, philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

> Just curious is anyone has fooled with Plan 9.
>
> I've recently installed it
>
>
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
>
>


I may download the live CD if it has a desktop, does it have KDE, Fluxbox,  
or something like that?

Can I browse the internet?

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:27:56 +0100,
ikouna <oh@oh.spam> wrote:
>  On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:31:02 +0100, philo <philo@privacy.net>
wrote:
> 
> > Just curious is anyone has fooled with Plan 9.
> >
> > I've recently installed it
> >
> > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
> 
>  I may download the live CD if it has a desktop, does it have KDE, Fluxbox,
 
>  or something like that?

If you're looking to spend some time, check it out.  Last I checked
the apps were outside of what I was familiar with.  I didn't care for
it, but I didn't put any time into it either.

IIRC it had a window manager, but I don't believe Gnome or KDE have
been (or will be) ported.  

Michael C.
-- 
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> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:27:56 +0100,
> ikouna <oh@oh.spam> wrote:
> >  On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:31:02 +0100, philo <philo@privacy.net>
wrote:
> >
> > > Just curious is anyone has fooled with Plan 9.
> > >
> > > I've recently installed it
> > >
> > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
> >
> >  I may download the live CD if it has a desktop, does it have KDE,
Fluxbox,
> >  or something like that?
>
> If you're looking to spend some time, check it out.  Last I checked
> the apps were outside of what I was familiar with.  I didn't care for
> it, but I didn't put any time into it either.
>
> IIRC it had a window manager, but I don't believe Gnome or KDE have
> been (or will be) ported.



Plan 9 is not Linux, there is no KDE or Gnome...
it's really for super geeks and experimentors.

The Gui is an absolute minimum.

To view a webpage you can use webfsget
and the code will be displayed in the CLI window.

The only way to really get a web browser would be to install  the Inferno
emulator and use Charon...
which thus far I have not been able to configure.

A few years back, someone wrote a minimal web broswer for Plan 9 called
Mothra   (named after an other bad movie)

I downloaded the code, one line at a time..
but was unable to compile it so for now I've given up on it.

Basically, where I live it's been a long , snowy winter and I needed some
project to keep me busy <G>

"ikouna" <oh@oh.spam> wrote in message
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>
>
> > The only way to really get a web browser would be to install  the
Inferno
> > emulator and use Charon...
> > which thus far I have not been able to configure.
> >
> > A few years back, someone wrote a minimal web broswer for Plan 9
called
> > Mothra   (named after an other bad movie)
>
> It looked like one in the screenshot:
>
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/img/mirtchov/plan9-normal.png
>
> Its a pity it is so hard to get a browser.


actually..I was able to get a web browser after all

I used Abaco

It took me a while to find it but they had it pre-compiled...
I just downloaded it and used it today.

The only problem I had was that it initially would not load due to a font
being missing,
but I got that solved pretty fast.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to enable cookes.


BTW: I did finally get Inferno working...
only to find out that I was unable to get the "Charon" browser
working...
but I'll continue working with Abaco

BTW: at the time of this posting, Bell Labs' website is down !