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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 18:06:01 -0700
From: geoff@collyer.net
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> all the things you obviously _don't_ use while using Plan 9 - such as
> graphical/current web-browsing apps, various media apps, pim apps,
> vector graphics editing apps, spreadsheet and publishing apps, pdf,
> relational database management systems, etc.  etc.

I use Safari via VNC from Plan 9 for web browsing (we do after all
have networks nowadays, so we don't have to run everything in one
machine).  page(1) reads PDF.

The rest of the above list seem to me to be mostly bling, symptoms or
check-list items.  In a pinch, my Mac Mini makes a fine multimedia
processor.  I have no interest in most of the other items
(spreadsheets!?), and actively dislike others (RDBMs).  Somehow the
lack of these things hasn't been a problem.