From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:29:55 PST." <7d3530220801251029l67a510faq1e41ee0c707e443e@mail.gmail.com> From: Bakul Shah Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:38:47 -0800 Message-Id: <20080125193847.C87FE5B30@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 394c8b40-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:29:55 PST "John Floren" wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 10:09 AM, 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.