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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:13:25 +0100
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Could someone explain to me why linux caught on?

Is it because a bunch of people had nothing better to do that
to endlessly tinker with it?

I had a fun afternoon yesterday installing linux -- ghastly.

I really loved the question:

   Which one of these 5 useless sendmail configurations don't you want?

None of them were right and I've hacked the code to that thing
and fixed more broken config files than I care to remember.

Plan 9 installs in 15 minutes (or so) or _it doesn't install at all_.

This is good because all I stand to lose is 15 minutes.