From: Diego Calleja <diegocg-yoquetuquitabaesto-@teleline.es>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:02:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040420204032.12a9eac7.diegocg-yoquetuquitabaesto-@teleline.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE05618B@black.aprote.com>
El Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:59:26 GMT t.lankots@aprote.ee (Tiit Lankots) escribió:
> One of the raison d'êtres of Plan 9 is the _absence_ of such things. If you want Linux, use Linux; if you want Plan 9, use Plan 9. Conceptual impurity is an evil, and not a necessary one.
heh, good answer :)
> P.S. The desktop metaphor is a relict. Actually, it never quite worked, but most people don't care to notice. Plan 9 is ahead of it's time by a good 30 years (sigh).
Plan9 is not ahead of anything. It's most of the world who is 30 years behind.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-21 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-20 8:58 Tiit Lankots
2004-04-21 9:02 ` Diego Calleja [this message]
2004-04-22 7:11 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-22 12:43 ` Joel Salomon
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2004-04-19 10:03 [9fans] " Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-04-20 8:38 ` [9fans] " Diego Calleja
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