From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45EF21E6.6070807@proweb.co.uk> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:34:46 +0000 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20060326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno References: <45EDE39F.8060006@proweb.co.uk> <474b349ac6f7a20920261a714df9b8ef@proxima.alt.za> <32a656c20703062152n6a9bb7b1qfefa9b7827e3a9af@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10703062202g29819385h5d4fe3db57b9867c@mail.gmail.com> <32a656c20703062216h18c65028lba8cc6d8ccde8bbc@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10703062242q3cdc421fnb45a5e6342b8b5ee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13426df10703062242q3cdc421fnb45a5e6342b8b5ee@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a3ae630-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Then I come to this list and people say "fuck 'em". I don't know,, > seems like an unconstructive attitude to me. The first thing you'll have to do is show those people how plan 9 is EXACTLY the same as their current on screen system. Then you'll have to show them the new Acme with 3d borders, tear off command pallettes, online help system, C++ & Java Class browser with Intellisense, variable name auto completion, safe source and cvs and svn and git and mercurial plug-ins, colour syntax highlighting, auto-indent, form editor, icon editor ......... ad nauseum. You'll need a Media Player that can play wavs, aacs, wmas, mp3s, avis, streaming flash movies, mpeg and 1001 other codecs. A fully featured MSN/Yahoo/Google Voice/Skype/$IM client. A multi paned dedicated Email client with HTML rendering And not an accursed web browser but a Application Execution Environment that uses XHTML/CSS3/DOM. Then you can show them how 9p works. Mind, I want that media player now I come to think of it. and HTML: I curse you. Hands up who wants Display Troff ! m