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From: Oleksandr Iakovliev <yshurik@lynxline.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:10:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507FF1C9.4000205@lynxline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j3s4l9xupk.ln2@news.homelinux.net>

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On 2012-10-18 11:03 , Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>> Greetings comrades.
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
>> wrote:
>>> This says a lot, rather nicely:
>>>
>>>     http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
>>>
>>> Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same
>>> story all over again.
>>
>> The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>
> 1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
> 2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools
> 3) Lack of a decent web0browser
> 4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client
> 5) Lack of an Office Applications suite
> ...
> ...
> ...
> z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go
>

But that's the list of benefits, isn't? :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-18 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17 19:49 Aharon Robbins
2012-10-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-10-17 20:19   ` Rodrigo Miranda
2012-10-18  0:29   ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18  7:31     ` arnold
2012-10-18 13:54       ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 14:20     ` [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface Albert Skye
2012-10-18 15:41       ` Julius Schmidt
2012-10-18 15:42       ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 19:37         ` Corey Thomasson
2012-10-18 19:40           ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-24  7:19       ` Albert Skye
2012-10-18  8:36   ` [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop tlaronde
2012-10-18  9:03   ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-10-18 12:10     ` Oleksandr Iakovliev [this message]
2012-10-18 13:25       ` Nemo
2012-10-18 13:44     ` Stephen Wiley
2012-10-18 14:16   ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-10-18 16:50     ` Robert Raschke
2012-10-18 16:52       ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 17:47         ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-17 20:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 14:18 ` yard-ape
2012-10-18 13:51 Brian L. Stuart
2012-10-18 17:17 ` John Floren
2012-10-18 17:20   ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-10-18 18:32   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-10-18 21:07     ` Calvin Morrison
2012-10-19 15:31   ` Dan Cross

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