Re: [9fans] Wearables

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On 5/17/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:

> Plan 9 fails for GUI-less use.

Plan 9 fails at anything that it doesn't succeed at.

This is the Plan 9 cycle of existence:

Since it's not good at X, people don't make it good at X. So they
don't use it for X. Since they don't use it for X, it's not good at X.
Since it's not good at X ..

It reminds me of the recycling mobius strip.

There's only way one out of this cycle, but it's painful.

Plan 9 CLI interface is, right now, where the Unix CLI was when I
started using it -- minus, of course, DEL. That's pretty easy to fix
-- well, trivial, in fact, to fix. In fact, someone I know has fixed
it. Solution left to reader. It's not a character builder, as it is
too easy.

Is there a fundamental reason that Plan 9 can not be a CLI system like
Unix? No.
Is anyone going to do it? Guess not.
If you had a decent Plan 9 CLI system, would it be nicer for these
network widgets than Linux? My experience says yes, because even an
indecent plan 9 sytsem is better for wireless network widgets.

ron