From: Diego Calleja <diegocg-yoquetuquitabaesto-@teleline.es>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:38:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040419231647.713719d4.diegocg-yoquetuquitabaesto-@teleline.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <196f381b.0404091423.53b0b231@posting.google.com>
El Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:03:50 GMT Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu> escribió:
> Can Plan 9 be used successfully on a personal desktop, as a
> replacement for, say, Windows or Linux.
>
> Or are its design goals and implementation incompatible with that sort
> of use?
If so, then Plan9 would suck, and it doesn't.
Bur right now, being a mor or less "research os" you can expect that
windows users are going to use it.
The key for desktop, anyway, are the apps, not the OS itself. If you can port
gnome/kde, openoffice, mozilla, xmms, and you have drivers to listen mp3 and
watch dvds, then you're a desktop OS. But there's not a reason to port them
if you have near zero users.
Does Plan9 support linux binary emulation like open source BSDs do? If it
does it'd be even easier, since you'd benefit from all apps (including
commercial ones like databases) that are being written for linux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-20 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-19 10:03 [9fans] " Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-04-19 11:29 ` a
2004-04-19 12:23 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-19 13:03 ` Brantley Coile
2004-04-19 15:33 ` a
2004-04-19 14:28 ` ron minnich
2004-04-20 8:38 ` Diego Calleja [this message]
2004-04-20 8:58 [9fans] " Tiit Lankots
2004-04-21 9:02 ` Diego Calleja
2004-04-22 7:11 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-22 12:43 ` Joel Salomon
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