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From: yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:29:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinrBpxCnCj8oqOiFNty29802Dt0KBO9w3ZNxHBu@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286874392.3062.22.camel@maxtothemax-mint>

2010/10/12 Max E <maxxedout@comcast.net>:
> For any use-case I personally care about (and probably any
> workstation/server use case you care about as well,) the Linux kernel
> with the GNU userspace will blow anything out of the water, both in
> performance and usability.

I don't think the GNU userspace is more usable. Compare the bash and
rc man pages and tell me which one you find easier to use. From my
point of view consistency and simplicity increase usability. Both of
these qualities are difficult to find in GNU software.. If you don't
recognize this you're sticking your head in the sand.

--
- yiyus || JGL . 4l77.com



      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12  9:29 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
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 [this message]

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