From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@192.168.1.2> <47A0EF02-01B5-417A-9FB5-79A2EAAB31B0@mac.com> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:13:26 +0100 Message-ID: <6a3ae47e0904171713u392a92f4yc9797b8a3bd066fc@mail.gmail.com> From: Robert Raschke To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e4c83dec-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/17/09, Balwinder S Dheeman 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