From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:38:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080125193847.C87FE5B30@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:29:55 PST." <7d3530220801251029l67a510faq1e41ee0c707e443e@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:29:55 PST "John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 10:09 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > > May be the problem is that people are treating plan 9 as a
> > > Van Gogh masterpiece when they should be treating as building
> > > material :-)
> >
> > I sincerely hope for your sake that you don't treat your next Van Gogh
> > masterpiece as building rubble. Or treat Plan 9 as some sort of Linux
> > surrogate. Why not use the real thing, considering how much less
> > wasteful it would be?
>
> I think the point is that people talk a big talk about how great Plan
> 9 is, but then don't do a damn thing with it.
> At least, that's how I read it.
More or less right. Use it, abuse it, rip it apart and
reconstruct it but *build* something interesting with plan9!
I didn't mean to suggest people are not doing it; just that
I find building stuff is much more fruitful than discussions
about what should people *not* do with plan 9.
A killer app *always* fills some need for a lot of people but
a priori you can't know if your app is going to be the one so
no point in worrying much about it. You might as well build
something *you* find useful. If you want to compile plan9
with gcc, go right ahead! If you want to build a server
farm, why not? If you want to port plan9 to a cellphone,
great! If you want to make plan9 look like Linux, sure! The
more (& different) things get built the better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 20:08 [9fans] " Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 20:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-01-20 21:05 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 22:22 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-20 23:41 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 23:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 23:47 ` benavento
2008-01-20 23:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 14:09 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 14:39 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-21 15:01 ` Kernel Panic
2008-01-21 16:02 ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-21 20:54 ` Steve Simon
2008-01-21 21:58 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 22:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 22:59 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-21 23:25 ` Fazlul Shahriar
2008-01-21 23:31 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 0:39 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 12:15 ` Russ Cox
2008-01-22 12:38 ` Harri Haataja
2008-01-22 13:09 ` lucio
2008-01-22 15:03 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 15:37 ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-23 9:35 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2008-01-23 11:15 ` Harri Haataja
2008-01-24 9:41 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-24 10:05 ` Steve Simon
2008-01-24 10:44 ` benavento
2008-01-24 15:05 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 15:14 ` benavento
2008-01-24 15:51 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:12 ` benavento
2008-01-25 9:55 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-24 16:55 ` Uriel
2008-01-24 11:19 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 11:24 ` Christopher Nielsen
2008-01-24 11:48 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 12:46 ` mattmobile
2008-01-24 13:23 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 15:37 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:04 ` ron minnich
2008-01-24 18:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-01-24 18:15 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 18:19 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:38 ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 18:44 ` lucio
2008-01-24 19:01 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:50 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-01-24 19:04 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 21:52 ` Russ Cox
2008-01-25 9:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-01-25 12:19 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-01-24 13:38 ` tlaronde
2008-01-23 14:17 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-23 16:13 ` ron minnich
2008-01-23 16:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-23 17:36 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-23 18:26 ` Uriel
2008-01-24 9:59 ` sqweek
2008-01-24 17:21 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 18:21 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 18:37 ` lucio
2008-01-24 22:16 ` Gary Wright
2008-01-25 2:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 3:21 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 6:08 ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:52 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 19:09 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 19:27 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 19:38 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 21:26 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-01-25 9:55 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 14:14 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 14:26 ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-25 17:49 ` Bakul Shah
2008-01-25 18:09 ` lucio
2008-01-25 18:29 ` John Floren
2008-01-25 19:12 ` lucio
2008-01-25 19:38 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2008-01-25 20:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-01-26 2:28 ` dave.l
2008-01-26 3:08 ` John Floren
2008-01-26 3:17 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-28 3:11 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-28 3:34 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-25 18:32 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 18:15 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-25 18:30 ` lucio
2008-01-25 18:17 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-25 18:19 ` John Floren
2008-01-25 14:35 ` [9fans] importing web browsers (was Building GCC) Charles Forsyth
2008-01-25 14:45 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 17:50 ` lucio
2008-01-26 15:47 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-26 15:50 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 16:17 ` [9fans] Re: Building GCC pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 18:04 ` lucio
2008-01-26 15:29 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-24 19:13 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 19:18 ` lucio
2008-01-24 19:26 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-25 9:56 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 11:21 ` lucio
2008-01-25 14:07 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 18:43 ` [9fans] Higher level document rendering and editing (Was: Building GCC) lucio
2008-01-28 10:04 ` [9fans] Re: Higher level document rendering and editing (Was pavlovetsky
2008-01-28 10:36 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-24 18:23 ` [9fans] Re: Building GCC lucio
2008-01-25 10:00 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-22 17:15 ` [9fans] " Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 18:19 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-22 18:28 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 18:37 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-22 13:26 ` John Stalker
2008-01-22 16:35 ` ron minnich
2008-01-22 17:00 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-22 17:07 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:18 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-22 17:25 ` ron minnich
2008-01-22 17:46 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:07 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:15 ` ron minnich
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