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Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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Date: Wed,  3 Mar 2004 12:11:24 -0700
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> 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