From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10703061227k460ffb59u873eaecef7629f69@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:27:03 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: <20070306113308.09953366@dsl092-187-181.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10702260708i7be0cd7bs49f7eda72c6935ea@mail.gmail.com> <20070306113308.09953366@dsl092-187-181.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 17d53d28-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/6/07, bride of excession wrote: > I am so glad to see I'm not alone on this issue. > Much as I love plan9, to me Rio is just a very > cumbersome and eye gouging way to view images, yes, it is to many. this is not just a matter of "we are so smart, we get rio, and no one else does, so F*** 'em!". I know lots of smart peope. One look at rio is enough to put them off their feed, and to chase them away from Plan 9. Plan 9 is not just about rio -- at least to me. Now, I run rio, on linux and plan 9, and I like it. But, that said, if Plan 9 has an achilles heel, rio is it. It's the first (and last) thing many people see on Plan 9. As for C++, it has happened on any number of machines I have worked with, whether there is a compile on them or not, gcc/g++ are a prerequisite for success. Like it or not. I really wish we could get someone to wrap up the gcc port and feed the changes back into the tree. In fact, ...., this might be a good use of some DOE money ... hmmm ..... (gears start to whirl). ron