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

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole.hjalmar.kristensen@gmail.com>]

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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."
>
>

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