From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the desktop?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:28:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404190827560.3834-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <196f381b.0404091423.53b0b231@posting.google.com>
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> Can Plan 9 be used successfully on a personal desktop, as a
> replacement for, say, Windows or Linux?
long as you don't need anything like zyxOffice, or any x tools, or
whatever.
> Or are its design goals and implementation incompatible with that sort
> of use?
The big limitation is you can't participate in virus propagation. That's a
real limiter.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-19 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-19 10:03 Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-04-19 11:29 ` a
2004-04-19 12:23 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-19 13:03 ` Brantley Coile
2004-04-19 15:33 ` a
2004-04-19 14:28 ` ron minnich [this message]
2004-04-20 8:38 ` [9fans] " Diego Calleja
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