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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie
Date: Wed,  3 Mar 2004 12:11:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d19c138e3efdc1ffa7d0950dcae4ace@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040303185823.GA1129@bsd.my.domain>

> mostly icewm; but once I tried Plan 9, I kept finding myself
> myseriously drawn back to it. Acme does that to you. And, even
> though I'm not a programmer either, I just have a sense that it's a
> more elegant system.

it's rio's color palette that does it -- scientifically proven to put
you in a more relaxed, zen state.

things like web browsing, movies, music and IM can be abstracted (when
and if they arrive) in a rio window and not impair the overall feel of
the system.  just keep the window small.  there's a reason why links
stores its configuration files in /tmp.

andrey



  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-03 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-03 18:19 philo
2004-03-03 18:33 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-03 18:50 ` Sam
2004-03-04 10:15   ` philo
2004-03-04 13:06     ` a
2004-03-05 10:00       ` Dave Cummings
2004-03-05 10:28         ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-05 11:49         ` philo
2004-03-03 18:58 ` Greg Pavelcak
2004-03-03 19:11   ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2004-03-04 10:15     ` philo
2004-03-04 10:15   ` philo
2004-03-04 10:14 ` [9fans] Newbie philo
2004-03-04 10:43   ` matt
2004-03-05  9:59 ` philo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-09 14:00 [9fans] Newbie Russ Cox
2002-09-09  9:50 John Reagan

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