From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:32:40 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <845ae7583981644294540e5947f6e4c8@proxima.alt.za> References: <845ae7583981644294540e5947f6e4c8@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: db5dc6b4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > If you phrased this slightly more gently, people may in fact agree > with you. They'd be agreeing with the wrong formulation, then. > But Plan 9 is a great environment to experiment in. Sure. So is every nascent or vestigial system. Anyhow, the thread's originator says he's interested in computer systems in a very autotelic way. So, applications don't matter a lot; he's going to dine on the contents of the Petri dish no matter what :-D --On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:52 PM +0200 lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> but I >> don't think you can get much from it by way of productivity, unless you >> intend to get productive in software engineering and/or computer science. > > If you phrased this slightly more gently, people may in fact agree > with you. Although I find my workstation quite a useful mail agent, > perhaps for all the wrong reasons (the best way to describe it: > acme/Mail is *fast*!). > > But Plan 9 is a great environment to experiment in. Perhaps you ought > to look upon it as the Petri dish for information technology: concepts > grow a great deal faster in Plan 9 than they do elsewhere, for all the > _right_ reasons. > > ++L > >