From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4F6A1BDD.8090704@0x6a.com> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:20:13 -0500 From: Jack Norton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Question about usage of Plan 9 based os systems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6cf85ccc-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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