From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920806301602ke8c9cdel974262291a64e17a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:02:28 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: d03adc64-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: >> crap methodology versus doing something clever under the hood. You >> can't be a success unless you have an animated 3D GUI consuming most >> of your CPU resources and expending all sorts of power. > > That couldn't be farther from truth, at least in my case. No one wants to > waste their computer's time :-) Yet, when it comes to choose between wasting > their time or that of their computer's then most normal people will go for > the latter. > > I'm a regular Windows user. My Windows installation has been reduced to bare > minimum. It runs fine and hell it really can compete with any of the top > dogs in desktop applications. And when it comes to running a DNS server, > well, there's FreeBSD and OpenBSD. > > Where is the incentive for someone other than a CS/CE OS Design/Research > student (or the like) who's a vested interest in learning "exotic OS's" to > switch to Plan 9? Plan 9 seems to be a "niche" OS, as I pointed out before. > >> We should have spent the last 20 years working on movie-OS versus actually >> trying to do systems research. > > Systems research? Is dead. Utah2000. uriel