From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Message-ID: <20011105174902.O19583@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20011025124551.4A1E1199B5@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Jonadab the Unsightly One on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:01:58PM +0000 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:49:02 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1469dbba-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:01:58PM +0000, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > > > but with all my colleague's working state, too. > > This would be utterly unacceptable to me. I want things configured > the way I want them, not the way everyone else decides is a good > compromise. > > Surely plan9 allows individual users to customise their environments? Microsoft calls it a roaming profile. Except that with Plan 9 any resource not available on a particular workstation can be imported from other hosts, obviously within limits, to create the customised environment _each_ user is accustomed to, no matter what equipment she sits in front of, or where it is located. ++L