From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rui Carmo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 08:50:35 +0100 Message-Id: <884BE8B1-6929-4EC3-8B4D-CA9D3A24C266@gmail.com> References: <212BE98CB8836987E226EAC522589E24@ewsd.inri.net> In-Reply-To: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port : complete system : kernel : freebsd || linux ? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6d35414-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I wouldn=E2=80=99t allow the passive-aggressive mood that surfaces here from= time to time to turn me off the project.=20 That said, I=E2=80=99m fascinated by how often (and how quickly) some thread= s devolve into =E2=80=9Cthere is no point in doing that=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9C= we don=E2=80=99t need those modern contraptions=E2=80=9D arguments - reminds= me a lot of some of the hard boiled academia types I used to work with back= when VMS started losing ground.=20 As much as some folk here are not exactly fond of various nuances of modern t= ech (from Linux to X to git, etc.), I don=E2=80=99t think there=E2=80=99s a= ny need for dissing personal efforts to use or improve various aspects of Pl= an9 (including, horror of horrors, making the user land a bit more modern an= d usable, or at least more accessible to mainstream users). I=E2=80=99m just going to fetch my vitriol wiper now. R. > On 4 Oct 2018, at 08:38, Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 5:49 AM, wrote: >> what is the point of this exercise? >>=20 >=20 > To appear stupid, apparently, >=20 > --=20 > Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu >=20