From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <218917ef0612121751n5624f2c4x1ee668035457aa3f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:51:40 -0700 From: "Aki Nyrhinen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60612121637s4919f5c7r9a6608617dbdbdf6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_152903_22267166.1165974700508" References: <29101.1165882921@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> <3e1162e60612121637s4919f5c7r9a6608617dbdbdf6@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f37e33d0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_152903_22267166.1165974700508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline after watching andrey run plan9 in parallels and seeing the drawterm windows on x11, i'd have agreed with you, but i must say it feels a lot less bad when the "parasite" is full-screen and the "host" programs like firefox are in a smaller rio window that you can kill or hide at will. the firefox i'm writing this in is running full-screen (f11) on a 1000 by 1000 pixel vnc session and the illusion of having it native is pretty damn good (for me anyway) at least until my drawterm hack crashes and i start shouting untranslatable words (i hope it's better now that i realized drawterm didn't have reentrant memimagedraw) On 12/12/06, David Leimbach wrote: > > > I can't deny the utility of having Firefox (I'm writing this in a > > Firefox window), but even if Plan 9 could run Firefox, the next > > thing would be oh but it needs to be able to run these ten > > plugins, and so on and so on. Personally, I think you are going > > to be much happier running Plan 9 in some VM environment on > > Linux or Windows than putting in the effort for the other way around. > > > > And a lot of times, at the end of the day, I feel that as a result of > wanting to run Plan 9 in a VM environment, even in Parallels, makes me > sad, and I'd almost rather use Inferno :-) > > > > Russ > > > ------=_Part_152903_22267166.1165974700508 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
after watching andrey run plan9 in parallels and seeing the drawterm
windows on x11, i'd have agreed with you, but i must say it feels a lot
less bad when the "parasite" is full-screen and the "host" programs like
firefox are in a smaller rio window that you can kill or hide at will.

the firefox i'm writing this in is running full-screen (f11) on a 1000 by
1000 pixel vnc session and the illusion of having it native is pretty
damn good (for me anyway) at least until my drawterm hack crashes
and i start shouting untranslatable words (i hope it's better now that
i realized drawterm didn't have reentrant memimagedraw)

On 12/12/06, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't deny the utility of having Firefox (I'm writing this in a
> Firefox window), but even if Plan 9 could run Firefox, the next
> thing would be oh but it needs to be able to run these ten
> plugins, and so on and so on.  Personally, I think you are going
> to be much happier running Plan 9 in some VM environment on
> Linux or Windows than putting in the effort for the other way around.
>

And a lot of times, at the end of the day, I feel that as a result of
wanting to run Plan 9 in a VM environment, even in Parallels, makes me
sad, and I'd almost rather use Inferno :-)


> Russ
>

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