Re: [9fans] Question about usage of Plan 9 based os systems

[Jack Norton <jack@0x6a.com>]

On 3/14/2012 4:08 PM, Paschke Christoph wrote:
> for me very interesting question:
>
> who use a Plan 9 system productive?
> who use it for research?
> who use it just because bored with Linux as a tec gaming site?
> who use it commercial in a business?
> who use it on an embedded device?
> who programs with limbo?
>
> what else?
>

Although I used to use it in a graduate school setting as my main
desktop (so writing thesis, remote connections to unix machines), I now
simply have a VPS that runs it (well, 9front now).  It is used as a
playground for little experiments and projects that aren't tied to an
existing platform (i.e. I don't need some massive toolkit).  I also
cannot find a better text content creation platform (tex,troff).
I can't stress enough, however, the value of having a native
installation close by.  It provides an unparalleled focus on the
platform itself that a virtual machine (or remote machine) just doesn't
offer (and I can't offer any good reason *why* this is -- i'd wager it
is just a placebo effect).  To that end I do have some atom boards that
are in the queue as soon as I have a free weekend.

The 'productive' question doesn't apply to me.  I'm not productive on
linux or plan 9.

-Jack