Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

It's like I'm seeing an apparition of myself back more than a year ago. No
wonder 9fans got to dislike me so much. Do 9fans get nuisances like me in
regular intervals?

--On Friday, April 17, 2009 1:14 PM +0000 Balwinder S Dheeman
<bdheeman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/15/2009 05:22 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
>> On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Eris Discordia wrote:
>>
>>> Plan 9 is not intended for home or home office.
>>
>> True, but that doesn't mean it can't be used in such an environment. I
>> type all my reports up in Plan 9.
>
> Please set aside rare cases and let us know who except for the students,
> teachers and, or researchers uses Plan9 and, or Inferno in the offices,
> homes and, or cafes and for what?
>
> The Plan9 project started in 1980, took around 9 years to be solid
> enough to be usable and that too by the internal and, or lab people
> [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html] only. Whereas, the FreeBSD
> and, or Linux (though not an OS or Unix variant in a sense) came into
> existence later in 1993 and 1991 respectively are more popular among any
> other variants of Unix.
>
> IMHO, the Plan9 and, or Inferno are just failed attempts and have no
> real and, or viable commercial and, or industrial use in absence of
> hardware drivers and, or not the killer but some useful applications.
>
> Moreover, the user interface and, or window manager i.e. rio is too
> technical for an average user to put in to a good use. It lacks usual
> buttons for minimizing (hiding), maximizing, controlling windows. You
> can't even send a window to background and even if Inferno's wm has some
> of these including title bars, but the meanings and, or behavior of the
> same is quite different from other popular GUI systems.
>
> --
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