Re: [9fans] I have two questions

2009-07-07 Thread Federico G. Benavento
> There is Linux application support, I have seen a screenshot which included > Firefox; quite astonishing. I think only limited attention is paid to Linux > app support as for many the whole point of using Plan 9 is to avoid the > planet-sized amount of cruft un*x has accumulated, but it's ther

Re: [9fans] I have two questions

2009-07-07 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:58:53 -0700 David Leimbach wrote: > I believe there is TeX for Plan 9, but I've not used it. There is a POSIX > compatibility layer for Plan 9 that may help you get things ported that you > want to run (ape) and I believe there is experimental linux binary support > though

Re: [9fans] I have two questions

2009-07-07 Thread Steve Simon
tex is availabe as an old ISO /n/sources/extra/tex.iso.bz2, this expects you to have kfs as your main filesystem - but you can fake this with a couple of binds before running replica/pull. I installed this image, recompiled it, and pushed it out as a contrib package steve/tex. I had a look at upda

Re: [9fans] I have two questions

2009-07-07 Thread David Leimbach
You totally misrepresented yourself with 2 questions You can download Plan 9 from any OS that will let you have an internet connection and download plan 9. When you install it you can install it virtualized or on hardware, but check the wiki and documentation for successful configurations perh

[9fans] I have two questions

2009-07-07 Thread xiantingmanbu
hi everyone: I have two questions : A has anyone installed plan 9 through internet from Windows XP ? If so, how to get it ? B: can MetaPost , ConTeXt etc. TeX --- related programs be ported into plan 9 ? I know TeX and MetaFont can do it, but i need more TeX ---related programs for my wor