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Other Web Browsers for Bell Labs' Plan 9?
SeanIBaby asks: "I was wondering if anyone used Plan 9, and Inferno/Charon for a web browser. Are there any other web browsers for Plan 9, or do you have to code your own? I've noticed that Inferno's company sells Plan 9 boxed sets for $150US. I guess this is because they include the Inferno/Charon binaries with the image, even though they let you download Inferno for free from their website.
Plan 9 is free from Bell Labs."
>>the answer would be a resounding "Nope!"
I look at a system with plan9 on my desk (currently turned off), I read your answer, and I remember this quote: "The IQ of a crowd is inversely proportional to it's size".
This was not meant to be an offense, Farley Mullet, but I do know a couple of people who currently try out the OS, and your comment neglected to reflect that - that was not a safe assumption, but a rather centric one.
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OpenBSD wants the compilers.
FreeBSD wants the namespaces.
Everybody wants the plumber only they don't know it yet.
GNU/Hurd would love to have a working microkernel OS.
Wake me up when grep, sed & awk and the rest of the bunch work on Unicode!
Then there are the ports - Wily, 9wm, 9menu
Gawk's extensions are lifted from the plan9 way.
The "next big thing" grid computing is old hat to us.
Don't worry, we'll be waiting for you.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Yes, we are a small minority but growing steadily. We have 13 people in our little irc channel.
Crucify one of those, and you might make it to world domination.
the pun is mightier than the sword
i -- a browser attempt by Howard Trickey done sometime around 1996. you can view slightly less complex pages without crashing with probability of around 50%. i know of at least one masochist that uses it regularly.
:)
charon -- the browser packaged with VitaNuova's Inferno operating system which runs native atop Plan 9 (among other OS's). this is your best bet if you want to stick to using Plan 9 only.
Everything else the runs under UNIX/Windows (see Opera lurking in the background?). you only need to have a machine to run VNC on.
links -- two people have started a port of this graphical browser to Plan 9, one may succeed, who knows
as for mozilla, there is a slight problem with porting it to Plan 9 -- the browser sources are twice the size of the entire Plan 9 operating system (including the PostScript viewer).