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My first steps in plan 9
- x0t 15y agoWhile the article is old, I think it's a decent howto for installing plan9. Now I just need a use for it...
- jff 15y agoWell, really, about the only guide you need to install Plan 9 is "Hit Enter a whole bunch of times", and before you know it you'll have it installed to your hard disk. (I simplify, but pretty much every prompt either 1. Is clearly explained or 2. Has a sensible default.)
- runjake 15y agoI'm sorry, but I couldn't even get through the article. Every time I hovered over one of those underlined ad words in the article, a popup blocked my view of the article. It was really distracting. I got fed up with it after the 5th time and closed the tab. I expect many technically-inclined people did the same.
- anth 15y agothey are irritating, but there are extensions to most browsers to get rid of them. this page got me to add esources.infolinks.com to my JavaScript Blacklist set. it would, of course, be better if people stopped doing the stupid thing in the first place...
- supersillyus 15y agoAre people using Plan9 for Real Work™? I've always found it inspiring in it's simplicity and orthogonality, but it's easier to be simple and orthogonal when you aren't concerned with the last 10% of performance or compatibility with existing software, and I wonder if Plan9 sacrificed real world usefulness for conceptual purity.
- hollerith 15y agoOne of the national labs uses or has used Plan 9 for cluster computing. The leader of that effort is Ron Minnich.
- brcrth 15y agoRuss Cox still uses Plan9/Acme: http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/ http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/
- supersillyus 15y agoAccording to that (an interesting link, thanks), Russ uses Plan 9 from Userspace, which is similar in feel but still counts as running Linux for the purpose of my question, I think.
- anth 15y agoyes, people are. i use it daily (on top of p9p and 9vx). there are people building commercial products, using plan9 both for development and in the product itself. there are many research projects using it, including running it on some of the largest computers on the planet. it'd be hard (but not impossible) to use it to the exclusion of other things as a desktop today, because you can't get a very good native browser (there are workarounds, but they're all tough in different ways). there's lots of other environments where it makes great sense, though.
- LukeShu 15y agoThe article is fairly old, so I think it may be worth pointing out that kqemu is no longer non-free.