From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:07:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFUHyU=csLhnau1g3=c4a2KHsvpF4QbK1dKqn8uJiitNsYYGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfmL0EGx6jJuFm-S+J-tvk8ZAa=GDJaDO90-Bc8a3ooV9CQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Oct 18, 2012 2:34 PM, "Skip Tavakkolian" <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Erudite Glenda in Winter?
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> >> Precisely. The correlation between what makes something
> >> good and what makes something popular is small but negative.
> >> One of the primary reasons I stopped using Linux was that
> >> it was becoming too mainstream and just like all the
> >> commercial junk out there.
> >
> > I too find Linux too mainstream: http://i.imgur.com/Wtm16.png
> >
> >
> > john
>
I used plan9 before it was cool
-- full time philosopher/part time starbucks barista
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-18 13:51 Brian L. Stuart
2012-10-18 17:17 ` John Floren
2012-10-18 17:20 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-10-18 18:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-10-18 21:07 ` Calvin Morrison [this message]
2012-10-19 15:31 ` Dan Cross
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2012-10-17 19:49 Aharon Robbins
2012-10-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-10-17 20:19 ` Rodrigo Miranda
2012-10-18 0:29 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 7:31 ` arnold
2012-10-18 13:54 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 8:36 ` tlaronde
2012-10-18 9:03 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-10-18 12:10 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-18 13:25 ` Nemo
2012-10-18 13:44 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-10-18 14:16 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-10-18 16:50 ` Robert Raschke
2012-10-18 16:52 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 17:47 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-17 20:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 14:18 ` yard-ape
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