From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220607241253h40ec710ev48b2ffee8dd02db6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:53:54 -0700 From: "John Floren" To: csant , "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060724160009.A640A5AF70@mail.cse.psu.edu> <53f976bd0607240938i79313aa5nf6e33e176868a2bb@mail.gmail.com> <44C51F7A.4050604@lanl.gov> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89efd3ec-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/24/06, csant wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:28:58 +0200, Ronald G Minnich > wrote: > > > Another thing I ought to mention here. A LOT of the Plan 9 guys have two > > spouses: their plan 9 machine and their windows or linux or macos > > system. That tells me that Plan 9 has not been, and is not, sufficiently > > capable to be the only system one uses. > > Allow me a question: what exactly is it that the long-term Plan 9 users > miss on Plan 9, to look for it on some other system? An application I > understand people use regularly via VNC is a browser - is there anything > else that really is missing? You mention "third party apps": what exactly > is missing? And mainly: what is the reason for it missing? > > /c > I make frequent use of the evil spreadsheet at work. We do a lot of data collection, so we need something of that sort. It's probably missing because implementing an Excel-alike is "boring" and somehow against "the Plan 9 way". John -- TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!)