From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:39:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinO4jAj+T6A31r+fhWHoF6Nq6G=JLQQZuOysjae@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimn1x0H9kiRu+fo7BByW7nLN7OJrewF5rv6gwF5@mail.gmail.com>
Very succinct, and better than I could do 'til the coffee kicks in.
You could have pointed out that the entire source tree is smaller than
the gcc manual.
But as I say - do what you like. I know people who would rather spend
$5k on an Apple PC than $200 on a slicker plan9 box. I have my FS
(venti + fossil) on a USB wristband. Take that penguin heads.
Just the semi-delirious jots from early morning brucee.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Nick LaForge <nicklaforge@gmail.com> wrote:
>> why anyone should care about Plan 9 anyway
>
> Because: getting things right the first time around is much more of a
> practical matter than you may at first realize.
>
> Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 9:05 Mark Carter
2010-10-11 10:23 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2010-10-11 11:07 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:17 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:53 ` Nick LaForge
2010-10-11 13:39 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2010-10-11 14:45 ` ron minnich
2010-10-11 15:01 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-10-12 8:33 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-12 8:51 ` Max E
2010-10-12 14:47 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 11:25 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 12:24 ` Jacob Todd
2010-10-12 16:04 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-11 18:43 ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-10-12 8:17 ` Anssi Porttikivi
2010-10-12 14:09 ` Mark Carter
2010-10-12 14:53 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 14:59 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 9:06 ` Max E
2010-10-12 9:29 ` yy
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