From: Stephen Wiley <swwiley@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 09:44:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F0C8A9C6-002F-4989-A251-767DA2C0CAA1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j3s4l9xupk.ln2@news.homelinux.net>
On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>> Greetings comrades.
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>>> This says a lot, rather nicely:
>>>
>>> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
>>>
>>> Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same
>>> story all over again.
>>
>> The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>
> 1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
> 2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools
> 3) Lack of a decent web0browser
> 4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client
> 5) Lack of an Office Applications suite
> ...
> ...
> ...
> z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go
>
> --
> Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
> (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)
>
Is this another one of those weird plan9 jokes?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 14:20 ` [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface Albert Skye
2012-10-18 15:41 ` Julius Schmidt
2012-10-18 15:42 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 19:37 ` Corey Thomasson
2012-10-18 19:40 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-24 7:19 ` Albert Skye
2012-10-18 8:36 ` [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop 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 [this message]
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
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
2012-10-19 15:31 ` Dan Cross
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