From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <88a477560411170851681c3959@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:51:17 +0100 From: Matthias Teege To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 killer applications? In-Reply-To: <9e0dd08a5bd8022ad8760b54e360128d@coraid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <9e0dd08a5bd8022ad8760b54e360128d@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 046a815c-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:33:57 -0500, Brantley Coile wrote: > unique features of Plan 9. Or, to put it another way, Who are the > users and what are the benefits of Plan 9 features to them that they > couldn't get any where else. As Ronald says, plan9 offers most benefit to researchers, students and developers. In my case I really like it because it is a system. I have had enough from this supercharged pseudo systems with thousands of not working/cooperating applications. Today it is really hard to get any benefit from a traditional system. They all have to many ballast from the past, to many bells and whistles, to many bugs and to many marketing droids. I'm not a developer or a researcher but for me, there is no alternative solution today. Maybe it is the "power of textfiles" or some kind of zen. I hope there are enough "good guys" out there to keep it alive. Otherwise I must throw my computers out of the window. :-) Matthias