From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60411160807310e1489@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:07:20 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 killer applications? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 030c635c-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It's a horrible marketing term, "killer application", but I'm curious if there was a single piece of software other than the OS itself that has brought you to use Plan 9 in your daily or at least weekly lives. People ask me all the time why I use plan 9 and I usually end up saying something nice about the acme editor or the overall environment. With plan9port some of that is very easily simulated natively on other Operating Systems. It just seems since Plan 9 isn't very POSIX or ANSI C [without APE] that it clearly won't build many unix apps out of the box. Conversely there might be some plan 9 application that isn't really available elsewhere either but really stands out. I'm not sure how people feel about advocacy but this is the sort of information people like to hear when they ask "why bother?" Dave