From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nemo book
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:14:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+N-5baB3pmdF=djVJj1ehH2yYrz2R4dN=HCn3LXqQo+oFOqXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4LZyhGHcXh1P2C8QzQ1sC6YhaP_5rSUC2D5MMbwbzRz-173g@mail.gmail.com>
The point is that you can run multiple operating systems,
these days, even on the same machine at the same time.
There's no need to use the same one for everything.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM, L N <leonardnemoi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ah, now I see :-)
>>>
>>> http://www.clipartguide.com/_named_clipart_images/0511-0701-3117-1335_Skeleton_Behind_a_Business_Desk_clipart_image.jpg
>>>
>>> ron
>>
>> Maybe.
>>
>> The web-browser really is a deal-breaker, though.
>>
>> I really enjoyed reading about Plan 9, first at
>> plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/, and later at cat-v.org.
>>
>> As much as I like the design of Plan 9, I also like surfing the web.
>>
>> It would be nice to boot Plan 9 natively on AMD-64, type startx, and open a
>> browser.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I'm not at a level where I can really contribute to getting
>> Plan 9 to that point.
>>
>> I think the focus of the Plan 9 community should be just that.
>>
>> The goal should be a Plan 9 "distro" that runs natively on AMD-64, and can
>> open a web-browser.
>>
>> With the announcement of NIX, maybe we are already at that point?
>>
>> http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/good_bad_ugly/slides/28
>>
>> - Leonard
>
> I think you have seriously misapprehended many things about Plan 9.
> We don't have X. We are not Linux compatible, although there's a
> rather decent Linux emulator. There is no GTK, no Qt, no Firefox, no
> modern C++ compiler.
>
> I think it's time for people to stop telling the "Plan 9 community"
> what its goals should be, when these people haven't even booted Plan
> 9.
>
> John
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-14 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-14 21:43 s s
2011-09-14 21:46 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-14 21:46 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-14 21:48 ` s s
2011-09-14 21:52 ` s s
2011-09-14 21:50 ` hiro
2011-09-14 21:55 ` s s
2011-09-14 21:57 ` John Floren
2011-09-14 22:13 ` L N
2011-09-14 22:17 ` ron minnich
2011-09-14 22:41 ` L N
2011-09-14 22:54 ` John Floren
2011-09-14 23:14 ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2011-09-14 23:19 ` L N
2011-09-14 23:30 ` hiro
2011-09-14 23:33 ` ron minnich
2011-09-14 23:43 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-09-14 23:45 ` hiro
2011-09-15 0:39 ` L N
2011-09-14 23:32 ` ron minnich
2011-09-14 23:43 ` Nick LaForge
2011-09-15 9:40 ` dexen deVries
2011-09-16 0:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16 0:15 ` ron minnich
2011-09-16 0:31 ` [9fans] my kingdom for a web browser :-P Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-09-16 0:41 ` ron minnich
2011-09-16 0:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-09-16 1:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-16 2:13 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-16 2:46 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-09-16 3:58 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-16 14:52 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16 5:53 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-16 10:11 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2011-09-16 14:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16 15:17 ` tlaronde
2011-09-16 17:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-18 5:39 ` stephano zanzin
2011-09-16 11:28 ` Steve Simon
2011-09-16 14:43 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16 3:46 ` [9fans] Nemo book Jens Staal
2011-09-16 9:07 ` yy
2011-09-19 15:43 ` ron minnich
2011-09-19 16:37 ` Jens Staal
2011-09-19 17:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-09-19 18:10 ` tlaronde
2011-09-19 18:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-19 20:32 ` Richard Miller
2011-09-20 3:20 ` Jens Staal
2011-09-20 10:07 ` Richard Miller
2011-09-16 11:15 ` Steve Simon
[not found] ` <CAP6exYK+8TbaceUcfTAnuWruxahHvMmSgqGHKpH7jcZME=C5ww@mail.gmail.c>
2011-09-16 0:18 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-16 4:52 ` L N
2011-09-16 7:21 ` David du Colombier
2011-09-16 7:28 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-09-16 8:33 ` Richard Miller
2011-09-14 23:27 ` Jeff Sickel
2011-09-14 23:55 ` Rob Pike
2011-09-14 22:27 ` hiro
2011-09-14 21:58 ` s s
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-17 15:20 [9fans] nemo book Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-17 16:07 ` John Floren
2009-08-17 20:52 ` Steve Simon
2009-08-17 21:01 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-17 21:20 ` John Floren
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