From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4487F8B1.9070400@comtv.ru> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:15:13 +0400 From: Victor Nazarov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 References: <01c7b0f9a0701a54c46bf3eef50340ad@collyer.net> In-Reply-To: <01c7b0f9a0701a54c46bf3eef50340ad@collyer.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 60fea044-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 geoff@collyer.net wrote: >>all the things you obviously _don't_ use while using Plan 9 - such as >>graphical/current web-browsing apps, various media apps, pim apps, >>vector graphics editing apps, spreadsheet and publishing apps, pdf, >>relational database management systems, etc. etc. >> >> > >I use Safari via VNC from Plan 9 for web browsing (we do after all >have networks nowadays, so we don't have to run everything in one >machine). page(1) reads PDF. > >The rest of the above list seem to me to be mostly bling, symptoms or >check-list items. In a pinch, my Mac Mini makes a fine multimedia >processor. I have no interest in most of the other items >(spreadsheets!?), and actively dislike others (RDBMs). Somehow the >lack of these things hasn't been a problem. > > I actively dislike Web tecnologies (w3c as a whole). But why RDBMs? Actually I dislike them too, but there seems to be no real alternatives. And, hmm, I like spreadsheets :) -- Victor