From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp)
From: anothy@cosym.net
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Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2001 10:56:37 -0400
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// Inferno != Plan 9.

// There is no web browser in Plan 9---and that's got to be a big obstacle.

given the presence of Charon for Inferno, i doubt it, actually. the point is to
provide a web browser usable withing Plan 9, and Charon fills that need
nicely (not totally, but nicely). do you really care that it's a dis program, or
that it's running within a virtual machine? do you think the Mac OS X users
are bothered by the fact that many of their apps run in Classic (OS X's
emulation of OS 9, for the unaware)?

i have a "charon" rc script in Plan 9 that starts up a seperate emu window
of reasonable size and starts charon running in it. the differences between
that and were Charon running "native" in Plan 9 are minimal, to me as a
user. and, more to the point, given the presence of a web browser usable
directly from within Plan 9, as Charon is, i definatly don't think i'd advocate
anyone spending time on that, while there's still plenty about Plan 9 that
i'd like to see fixed that Inferno _doesn't_ solve (yet?).

and yes, one OS doesn't have to do everything, but it is worth looking at
how much we can make it do (without breaking what's right about it).
-α.