From: Tyga <cyberfonic@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:36:21 +1000 [thread overview]
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Re: your comment about trackpad / vertical mouse.
I had a similar RSI problem a couple of years ago. I solved it by using a
Logitech trackball with my right hand - but only to move the cursor and I
used a MS optical mouse with the tracking window taped over so that I would
only use it to click or scroll with the left hand. I had to tape over the
window so that moving the mouse wouldn't actually move the pointer which I
had carefully positioned with the trackball. Cured the RSI and now able to
even use a normal trackpad on a notebook for short periods of time. But I
do prefer to use my desktop for serious amounts of work.
On 26 June 2018 at 13:24, 刘宇宝 <liuyubao@yingmi.cn> wrote:
> // seems this email was lost according to http://marc.info/?l=9fans, send
> again, sorry if duplicated.
>
> On Jun 24, 2018, at 5:12 PM, 刘宇宝 <liuyubao@yingmi.cn> wrote:
>
> Very like your comment, thanks! On macOS I mainly use iTerm2 + VIM + SSH +
> Firefox, if Plan 9 had a decent native web browser I may use 9front for
> serious daily work. I don't care much native app stack because I mainly do
> Python/Java/Node on remote Linux server.
>
> I hate trackpad, it hurts my wrists, I just got a cheap vertical mouse,
> may buy Evoluent mouse later. Meanwhile, I was wondering whether trackball
> will heal my wrists more.
>
> Recently I read Rob Pike's "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant", I
> felt pity, and I was wondering what the operating system would look like in
> the future, here is my stupid optimistic predication:
>
> • Server hardware will become extreme powerful, TB DRAM,
> non-volatile memory, NVMe disk, 100Gb ethernet, the paradigm of separate
> cpu server, file server, (a little fat) terminals will come back to be
> mainstream, network of piles of cheap PCs will go away.
> • Linux,even BSD,became the underlying device driver and "BIOS",
> this is almost the current situation, Linux KVM, Xen + Linux dom0 hide
> details of hardware. This layer takes care maximum hardware support and raw
> performance.
> • *Distributed* operating systems above KVM/Xen will step into a
> period of great development, hardware support and maximum raw performance
> are not top priorities, *OS native* fault tolerance, simple and clear
> distributed process scheduling, easy and consistent IPC/RPC API will win,
> Google Kubernetes will die. Many ideas of Plan 9 will revive, just like
> memory garbage collecting revived after about 30 years.
>
> Regards,
> Yubao Liu
>
> >
> > From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net <9fans-bounces@9fans.net> on behalf of
> Rui Carmo <rui.carmo@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 5:06 PM
> > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> > Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?
> >
> > I’m late to the thread, but this seems like a good point to step in.
> >
> > I’m using plan9 on a quad-core Raspberry Pi as a sort of universal
> terminal to manage some of my home machines, and recently deleted the
> 9front VM I had on my home KVM server because even though the programming
> model and Go support were nice, most of my day-to-day work is on cloud
> solutions and there was no easy way to make those co-exist with Plan9 usage.
> >
> > There were a few discussions in this thread around dev stacks, browsers,
> etc., and my $0.02 on that is that I could probably work in Plan9 on a
> daily basis _if_ it had a usable (i.e., all the warts including JavaScript
> and fonts) web browser, but that the lack of alignment (intended or
> otherwise) with Linux tools and app stacks (SSH, Node, Python, Java) would
> make it very painful.
> >
> > Running a remote browser (which is what I do often in that Pi) sort of
> works, but you never get the full benefits you’d get with a native process.
> And lack of access to modern app stacks renders the platform unattractive
> for mainstream development work.
> >
> > But what killed it for me was the need for chording (mouse or keys).
> Using a modern trackpad on a MacBook or Surface device is a quantum leap
> beyond using a mouse for general use, and the lack of a modernised Rio with
> enough thoughtful design to overcome the differences in philosophy is the
> first barrier to continued usage.
> >
> > Acme is something I miss on occasion, but modern GUI editors compensate
> in other ways (at the expense of resource usage, etc., but with a massive
> boost in productivity for me). Also, I’m typing this on an iMac 5K with
> nearly unmatched font rendering and legibility (the only thing that comes
> close is the Surface Pro alongside it). Visuals matter a great deal.
> >
> > There is an unmatchable degree of purity in Plan9, but (even though the
> diehards will stick their ground and claim it’s perfect to the exclusion of
> other modern comforts) to coexist successfully it has to provide more
> affordances.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > R.
> >
> > > On 14 Jun 2018, at 04:53, 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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2018-06-11 6:14 刘宇宝
2018-06-12 14:57 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-14 2:53 ` N. S. Montanaro
2018-06-14 3:53 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-14 5:17 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-14 21:12 ` hiro
2018-06-15 0:57 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-15 2:24 ` N. S. Montanaro
2018-06-15 11:44 ` hiro
2018-06-16 13:39 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2018-06-16 15:26 ` Jerome Ibanes
2018-06-21 9:06 ` Rui Carmo
2018-06-21 9:53 ` dexen deVries
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2018-06-26 3:24 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-26 6:36 ` Tyga [this message]
2018-06-27 19:10 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-27 18:45 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-14 9:46 ` Tyga
2018-06-14 14:22 ` Steve Simon
2018-06-14 16:15 ` tlaronde
2018-06-14 17:23 ` hiro
2018-06-14 17:45 ` Daniel Camoles
2018-06-15 6:13 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-15 13:51 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-15 14:26 ` hiro
2018-06-15 16:03 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-15 17:47 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-15 19:02 ` Mark van Atten
2018-06-15 23:58 ` Iruatã Souza
2018-06-16 9:35 ` tlaronde
2018-06-18 8:35 ` Mark van Atten
2018-06-14 21:20 ` hiro
2018-06-20 21:35 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 3:58 ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-21 4:49 ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-21 16:02 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 15:23 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 18:03 ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-25 9:33 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-26 5:17 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-27 19:01 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-26 21:03 ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-21 5:39 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-06-21 16:39 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 20:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-06-28 9:57 ` Richard Miller
2018-06-27 5:18 ` Iruatã Souza
2018-06-28 2:04 ` Tyga
2018-06-21 7:20 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-21 15:11 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-24 8:22 ` 刘宇宝
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2018-06-15 16:44 ` Brian L. Stuart
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2018-06-27 16:20 ` Brian L. Stuart
2018-06-28 2:06 ` Tyga
2018-06-28 7:22 ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-28 18:47 ` Bakul Shah
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