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From: "Tiit Lankots" <t.lankots@aprote.ee>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:58:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE05618B@black.aprote.com> (raw)

> Does Plan9 support linux binary emulation like open source 
> BSDs do? If it

One of the raison d'êtres of Plan 9 is the _absence_ of such things. If you want Linux, use Linux; if you want Plan 9, use Plan 9. Conceptual impurity is an evil, and not a necessary one.

P.S. The desktop metaphor is a relict. Actually, it never quite worked, but most people don't care to notice. Plan 9 is ahead of it's time by a good 30 years (sigh).
P.P.S. To quote Dijksta, "I was pleasantly surprised to find that the dictionary description of 'elegant' is 'simple and surprisingly effective'."


             reply	other threads:[~2004-04-20  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-20  8:58 Tiit Lankots [this message]
2004-04-21  9:02 ` Diego Calleja
2004-04-22  7:11   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-22 12:43     ` Joel Salomon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-19 10:03 [9fans] " Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-04-20  8:38 ` [9fans] " Diego Calleja

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