From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stalker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Building GCC In-reply-to: <20080122121524.7766A1E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> References: <20080122121524.7766A1E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3050.1201008377.1@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:26:17 +0000 Message-Id: <20080122132617.7D6CB87A5@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 336cd3ba-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > why use plan 9 at all? why not just install linux or freebsd? > russ In fact, I do use FreeBSD and p9p, thanks, most of the time. The point for me is that plan9 is much nicer as a development environment, but most of the time I am using software written by other people, most of whom, sadly, were not Rob Pike. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282