From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:00:43 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@[192.168.1.2]>, <47A0EF02-01B5-417A-9FB5-79A2EAAB31B0@mac.com> 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: e1d33b6e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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. > > -- > Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 > Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 > Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP > Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/ >