From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <99aa75c4faa85b3ad54ed5aa3a0a1686@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:37:08 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow In-Reply-To: <762F6304-7D8B-4BA9-B78F-32E286A6D433@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f41efa68-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>This may solve the no-firefox-and-mplayer-for-plan9 problem, but I >>don't see how it solves the no-plan9-drivers-for-my-laptop one. well no: they must be written, but they are much easier than writing a browser, even one as annoying as firefox. when googling and fetching papers or software (my usual use of the web), i typically get by with charon and hget. for fancy stuff i more often than not now manage with firefox, but i still find a few things that demand windows. in either case, it's either displacement activity (ie, time wasting) or costly (buying on the internet). having to reboot to get these things has the advantage that, like undertaking a long journey, i ask myself ``is my journey really necessary?''. no, more often than not, so i get back to writing software.