>I am not making a criticism, I am asking a question. I already know about plan 9, I don't need to "check it out". I would like to know how I can actually use i

>I am not making a criticism, I am asking a question. I already know about plan 9, I don't need to "check it out". I would like to know how I can actually use it for something, rather than just play with it for a couple hours and go "yeah ok, that was cool". If you "know about it", then you would also now that you cannot use it for something like the things you mention. I cannot see how your questions are compatible with "knowing about it". Even its developers doesn't use it now --although they have ported their favorite userland tools from it to other systems.