From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I... From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010208013137.E844A199E3@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:31:32 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5cd36ffc-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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