From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I...
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:31:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010208013137.E844A199E3@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
I'm a little disturbed by these questions. It's not that I doubt
you'll get asked them, it's that Plan 9 will lose any feature fight.
What makes the system interesting is how it does things, not how many
programs have been ported to it, how compatible it is with Linux, or
how few picoseconds it takes to do a context switch.
You can help propagate the message by talking about how the system
works. Tell stories about how the pieces fit together, how they solve
problems by design rather than attack by overwhelming features. It's
a hard sell but it can be done.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2001-02-08 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-08 1:31 rob pike [this message]
2001-02-08 2:02 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2001-02-08 21:26 ` [9fans] " Steve Kilbane
2001-02-09 7:52 ` Scott Schwartz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-08 6:45 [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) anothy
2001-11-08 8:05 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 10:36 ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-11-08 18:20 ` cvs et al [Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?)] Ozan Yigit
2001-11-08 10:39 ` [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 21:22 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-11-09 0:30 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-09 7:02 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-09 15:52 ` Caffienator
2001-11-09 21:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-09 6:33 [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I Jonathan Sergent
2001-02-09 15:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-09 4:24 kim kubik
2001-02-08 14:07 nemo
2001-02-08 6:20 geoff
2001-02-08 7:08 ` Mike Haertel
2001-02-09 15:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-09 17:57 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-09 18:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-08 1:47 tad
2001-02-08 1:24 anothy
2001-02-08 1:05 Russ Cox
2001-02-08 5:38 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-06 21:04 [9fans] HOW TO INSTALL? Russ Cox
2001-02-07 23:41 ` [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I Jim Choate
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