From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corey To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:58:56 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.1; i686; ; ) References: <138575261003230627kb81c42q7710df1af4283919@mail.gmail.com> <4BAF6B59.5000108@maht0x0r.net> <4BB1087B.9050201@magma.com.ni> In-Reply-To: <4BB1087B.9050201@magma.com.ni> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201003291358.56753.corey@bitworthy.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] native install Topicbox-Message-UUID: f7eb7ad2-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Monday 29 March 2010 13:07:23 Georg Lehner wrote: > The recent survey of how Plan9 inventors use Plan9 today (it seems > mostly they don't) has cast some shadow of doubt on me that day=20 > to day computer work is ideally done on a Plan9 terminal. >=20 Day to day computer work will not generally be done on a Plan9 terminal unt= il Glenda finally overcomes her profoundly crippling case of automysophobia. Unfortunately however, it appears that she is surrounded by folks who are single-mindedly determined to keep her inside a sterile plastic bubble - according to these people, linux and gnu are, apparently, the boogey men=20 that will certainly 'get her' should she ever leave the confines of the=20 artificial cocoon that's been built up around her. 9fans: keep on worrying over 'contamination' from the real world, in the me= an time, Plan 9 is a precious little snowflake that is neigh useless outside o= f=20 an extraordinarily narrow variety of use cases: On Monday 29 March 2010 13:16:59 erik quanstrom wrote: > > I would also be happy to hear about how non-coding activities are > > typically handled by using a Plan9 system. >=20 > what non-coding activities? =E2=98=BA >=20 Plan9: an old-school IDE and a file server wrapped into one. The mind reels. Sometimes, less is _not_ more.