Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

[Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com>]

On 4/17/09, Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please set aside rare cases and let us know who except for the students,
> teachers and, or researchers uses Plan9 and, or Inferno in the offices,
> homes and, or cafes and for what?

At the risk (or maybe honour :-) of being branded as a rare case (I'm
neither student, nor teacher, nor hobbyist), I use Plan 9 in to
maintain my own network, email, web server and wiki, remote editing
facility (ftpfs) and in terms tools, I use acme a lot wherever I go. I
also use it as a handy way to store stuff centrally, for easy
worldwide access via drawterm. I would classify myself as slightly
paranoid, in that I don't really feel comfortable with letting Google
have at it willy nilly. Storing stuff at home may be more prone to
loss, but makes me feel better.

Plan 9 satisfies my curiosity in that I can understand and learn
things within it quite easily. Every time I have to use something like
Linux or MS, I feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all.
That's fine if it's for work (I get paid for that, after all), but not
for my private life.

Robby