From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920703160131k60e2160bq3c66e31ffdf6c68e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:31:22 +0100 From: Uriel 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 In-Reply-To: <20070316082014.GA17128@paju.oulu.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9ab217670703151136g79dc5cebt749fede7973f02e6@mail.gmail.com> <20070316082014.GA17128@paju.oulu.fi> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2656cd1c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Stop this thread. Please. Eternally grateful uriel P.S.: If you need to have this discussion, please read the 9fans archives from the past ten years, you will not notice the difference. On 3/16/07, Harri Haataja wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:28:00PM +0200, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > As I see little merit in making another Windows of Plan 9, even via > > the Linux route, I prefer the second option. Also, I don't understand > > the benefits of the first option: when I want Linux, NetBSD or > > Windows, I have them all at my fingertips, at least in one version. > > IF you wanted to look at the popularity aspect, bit by bit a Windows > was made of Linux in order to get a wider audience. In replacing NT > servers in small shops sneakily and making firewalls, print servers, > web servers etc, it worked fine. In the current desktop horrors, > maybe not. A lot of doors were opened to all kinds of systems. > > Doing similiar with plan9 might mean that there could be small plan9 > servers doing those back of the closet jobs. I really like that goal. > > Another thing might be trying to get everywhere, including glossy > desktops. Looking at Linux today, that might be a very risky route. > > Then there's the compatibility. You might have to stick with some > system or such just because of one app (Excel, Photoshop, Firefox...) > and that's a miserable state IMO/E. Maybe Xen will make that a lot > easier than before. > >