From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45EF5CB6.4040902@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:45:42 -0700 From: don bailey User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20070214) 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: <20070307084327.Y60404@orthanc.ca> <3e1162e60703071628q3c5e16deg22859ed62937505b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60703071628q3c5e16deg22859ed62937505b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a69b9d8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'm really with Minnich on this one. The GUI is what *everyone* complains about and it's always the *first* thing they complain about. I deal with pretty intelligent people in the security community and they can't handle Rio and don't want to. It isn't out of ignorance or the residue of sub-intellectualism, it's just the simple fact that mobility is the last thing people want to relearn. Think about it, would you rather learn how your new ten-speed mountain bike works or would you rather relearn how to ride a bike? I love Rio and find it a great environment to work in, but I'm a pretty odd cat and I tend to think in very odd ways (not necessarily good ways). Most people want to ALT+TAB-and-friends their way into learning a system. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Once you can navigate around the resources you want to learn, you can start to learn. How can you get under the hood if you can't figure out how to pop it up? Don "north" Bailey