From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Diego Calleja Message-ID: <20040419231647.713719d4.diegocg-yoquetuquitabaesto-@teleline.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <196f381b.0404091423.53b0b231@posting.google.com> Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop? Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:38:21 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 613d578e-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 El Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:03:50 GMT Joel Konkle-Parker escr= ibi=F3: > Can Plan 9 be used successfully on a personal desktop, as a > replacement for, say, Windows or Linux. >=20 > 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.=20 The key for desktop, anyway, are the apps, not the OS itself. If you can po= rt 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.