* RE: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
@ 2004-04-20 8:58 Tiit Lankots
2004-04-21 9:02 ` Diego Calleja
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From: Tiit Lankots @ 2004-04-20 8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> 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'."
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* Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
2004-04-20 8:58 [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop? Tiit Lankots
@ 2004-04-21 9:02 ` Diego Calleja
2004-04-22 7:11 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
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From: Diego Calleja @ 2004-04-21 9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
El Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:59:26 GMT t.lankots@aprote.ee (Tiit Lankots) escribió:
> 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.
heh, good answer :)
> 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).
Plan9 is not ahead of anything. It's most of the world who is 30 years behind.
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* Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
2004-04-21 9:02 ` Diego Calleja
@ 2004-04-22 7:11 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-22 12:43 ` Joel Salomon
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From: Fco.J.Ballesteros @ 2004-04-22 7:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> Plan9 is not ahead of anything. It's most of the world who is 30 years behind.
Fortune?
Should be there, IMHO.
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* Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
2004-04-22 7:11 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
@ 2004-04-22 12:43 ` Joel Salomon
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From: Joel Salomon @ 2004-04-22 12:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>> Plan9 is not ahead of anything. It's most of the world who is 30 years
>> behind.
>
> Fortune?
> Should be there, IMHO.
patch(1)
--Joel
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* [9fans] Re: Plan 9 on the desktop?
2004-04-19 10:03 [9fans] " Joel Konkle-Parker
@ 2004-04-20 8:38 ` Diego Calleja
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From: Diego Calleja @ 2004-04-20 8:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
El Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:03:50 GMT Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu> escribió:
> Can Plan 9 be used successfully on a personal desktop, as a
> replacement for, say, Windows or Linux.
>
> Or are its design goals and implementation incompatible with that sort
> of use?
If so, then Plan9 would suck, and it doesn't.
Bur right now, being a mor or less "research os" you can expect that
windows users are going to use it.
The key for desktop, anyway, are the apps, not the OS itself. If you can port
gnome/kde, openoffice, mozilla, xmms, and you have drivers to listen mp3 and
watch dvds, then you're a desktop OS. But there's not a reason to port them
if you have near zero users.
Does Plan9 support linux binary emulation like open source BSDs do? If it
does it'd be even easier, since you'd benefit from all apps (including
commercial ones like databases) that are being written for linux.
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