Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

[Jerome Ibanes <jibanes@gmail.com>]

I've been using it with Klong ( http://t3x.org/klong/index.html )
lately which supports plan9 natively.

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 6:39 AM, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
<ole.hjalmar.kristensen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot really say I am using Plan9 for anything serious, although I have
> both Plan9 and 9Front running on a couple of old laptops. I keep them around
> mainly to see if I can grok the ideas and maybe steal some of them :-)
>
> But I run the Plan9port tools on both Linux and Solaris, and occasionally
> Inferno on Windows, when I want a sane environment there. Acme is my main
> editor these days. The 'everything is text' approach works very well when
> developing on multiple paltforms (Solaris, Linux, BSD, Windows). In Acme,
> the left button combined with the plumber  is really usefull when jumping
> from a debug printout in the log to the source code. I run Vac/Venti on
> Linux as my backup system both at home and at work.
>
> If I ever get some spare time, I intend to set up a cron job to replicate
> the contents between the two Venti servers.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:53 AM, 刘宇宝 <liuyubao@yingmi.cn> wrote:
>>
>> Compared to "not for you", "don't care",  "intend to not be successful", I
>> like more the topic of cat-v irc channel on freenode set by aiju:  "fun
>> fact: you can use multiple operating systems at the same time".
>>
>> Certainly Plan 9 can't replace Linux/macOS/BSD/Windows, I'm still curious
>> its upper bound for a sensible daily usage,  and the best practice from you
>> happy experienced Plan 9 users.
>>
>> I checked mail headers in this mailing list, seems all use Apple Mail,
>> iPhone Mail, WebMail with AJAX, Gmail(a lot), ProtonMail,  these emails went
>> through Postfix and Exim servers, probably on Linux.
>>
>> In great harmony, we use kinds of operating system and kinds of software
>> on them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yubao Liu
>>
>> > On Jun 14, 2018, at 10:53 AM, N. S. Montanaro <nsm@airmail.cc> wrote:
>> >
>> > I think a lot of people discover Plan 9 and want it to be something it
>> > isn’t, rather than stumble upon it out of necessity. As the FQA says, “Plan
>> > 9 is not for you."
>>
>