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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:47:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b0cb3197406e6f914769e812fcb07b4@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a3ae47e0904171713u392a92f4yc9797b8a3bd066fc@mail.gmail.com>

> Every time I have to use something like
> Linux or MS, I feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all.

Possibly OT, my main beef with Linux and Windows is that they keep
wanting to update themselves and the effort to "manage" these updates
is enormous (less so with Ubuntu, but still great).  With Plan 9, I
find I can control the updating process and do not feel I'm leaving
myself exposed whenever I do.  Of course, the factors involved are
very different, but I have a suspicion that with Windows and Linux one
relinquishes control at too deep a level and the continual updates are
a particularly visible case of this loss of control.

++L




  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-18  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14  6:05 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 11:09 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 12:36 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-14 12:38   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 12:46   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-14 12:37 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 13:17 ` Andrés Domínguez
2009-04-15  8:26 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 11:48   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-17 13:14     ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-17 13:00       ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-17 13:35       ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]       ` <F1194F3CF3ADD35D3B0DF261@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-17 14:03         ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-18 16:23         ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 16:29           ` lucio
2009-04-17 14:08       ` Steve Simon
2009-04-17 16:08         ` hiro
2009-04-17 19:26       ` Gorka Guardiola
2009-04-20 10:41         ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 11:52           ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-04-20 15:02           ` Uriel
2009-04-20 16:21             ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 18:57           ` Steve Simon
2009-04-20 20:22             ` David Leimbach
2009-04-18  0:13       ` Robert Raschke
2009-04-18  5:47         ` lucio [this message]
2009-04-18  6:03           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18  6:11             ` lucio
2009-04-18  6:08               ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-18 16:15               ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 16:20                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18 16:34                   ` J.R. Mauro
     [not found]               ` <87DD0DBADB1647F789D9EB63@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 16:19                 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 18:29                   ` Eris Discordia
     [not found]                   ` <0AE52A74098A8B999540233C@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 19:43                     ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 19:34                       ` Eris Discordia
     [not found]                       ` <B6FF436789F29A3B7977687E@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 20:44                         ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-20 10:41             ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 18:13               ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-22 12:19                 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-22 13:09                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-20 10:41           ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 10:41         ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-15 13:52   ` lucio
2009-04-15 13:32     ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 16:00   ` Steve Simon
2009-04-15 16:09     ` ron minnich
     [not found] ` <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-15 13:02   ` hiro
2009-04-15 13:05   ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-15 12:50     ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 14:00     ` Navin Johnson
2009-04-15 14:39     ` hugo rivera
2009-04-16 14:07 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-17 13:14 ` Jim
2009-04-14 14:46 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 15:41 ` maht
2009-04-14 19:43 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 23:28   ` Jim Habegger

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