Re: Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 7/24/06, csant <csant@csant.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:28:58 +0200, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
> wrote:
>
> > Another thing I ought to mention here. A LOT of the Plan 9 guys have two
> > spouses: their plan 9 machine and their windows or linux or macos
> > system. That tells me that Plan 9 has not been, and is not, sufficiently
> > capable to be the only system one uses.
>
> Allow me a question: what exactly is it that the long-term Plan 9 users
> miss on Plan 9, to look for it on some other system? An application I
> understand people use regularly via VNC is a browser - is there anything
> else that really is missing? You mention "third party apps": what exactly
> is missing? And mainly: what is the reason for it missing?
>

Well as much as I love how upas/fs works, it, along with Acme's Mail
program, probably wouldn't be able to handle the amount of email I get
or let me organize it the way I can with my Mac and Mail.app or even
"mutt".

Most of my work is done on remote machines, so having "vt" and "ssh"
are a big deal. "sshnet" is awesome for what I do in conjunction with
u9fs and npfs.

But then there are those users who'll be put off because Plan 9 isn't
"shiny" enough.  I suppose if it works for fish lures, it works for
people too.

Dave