From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <201210171949.q9HJnfon003990@skeeve.com> <20121017200938.198DB12BB12E@r-36.net> <507FF1C9.4000205@lynxline.com> In-Reply-To: <507FF1C9.4000205@lynxline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-08255719-CCE0-48F5-BF16-D7F6FC27C884 Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Nemo Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:25:48 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf601a72-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-08255719-CCE0-48F5-BF16-D7F6FC27C884 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii that's what I thought. :) On Oct 18, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Oleksandr Iakovliev wrot= e: > On 2012-10-18 11:03 , Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: >> On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:=20 >>> Greetings comrades.=20 >>>=20 >>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins wr= ote:=20 >>>> This says a lot, rather nicely:=20 >>>>=20 >>>> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html=20 >>>>=20 >>>> Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same=20= >>>> story all over again.=20 >>>=20 >>> The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?=20 >>=20 >> 1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit=20 >> 2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools=20 >> 3) Lack of a decent web0browser=20 >> 4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client=20 >> 5) Lack of an Office Applications suite=20 >> ...=20 >> ...=20 >> ...=20 >> z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go=20 >>=20 >=20 > But that's the list of benefits, isn't? :) --Apple-Mail-08255719-CCE0-48F5-BF16-D7F6FC27C884 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

that's what I thought. :)

On Oct 18, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Oleksandr Iakovliev <yshurik@lynxline.com> wrote:

On 2012-10-18 11:03 , Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:

On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:

Greetings comrades.

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

This says a lot, rather nicely:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same
story all over again.

The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?

1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools
3) Lack of a decent web0browser
4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client
5) Lack of an Office Applications suite
...
...
...
z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go

But that's the list of benefits, isn't? :)

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