From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:53:47 -0400 From: "Dan Cross" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <830C45B1-D1B5-4398-A25D-62D766D7DD82@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <788982ab6dbaaf41faa4ab2b145cac75@csplan9.rit.edu> <830C45B1-D1B5-4398-A25D-62D766D7DD82@mac.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: d51b4a48-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 (But sarcasm seems to escape you.... :-)) On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:32 AM, john@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: >> >> Eric, I don't know what this "audio" thing you CS/CE type researchers >> are using but us lowlifes just need Firefox and Excel before we can >> use Plan 9. I'm afraid that until you can provide those, Joe Public >> will never use Plan 9 and it will be forever doomed to run only on >> supercomputers and storage systems and in research settings. > > -> WARNING: It's time to be brutally honest again. Take a deep breath. <- > > I'm 15. I run Plan 9 on a 20" iMac in the corner of my room at home. I > hardly use Excel, and I don't usually browse the web on Plan 9 (or with > Firefox - I use Safari on Mac). Yet I find myself using Plan 9 50% of my > computing day. The commonest two things I do are coding and document > typesetting. I like Plan 9's completeness of programming environment (I'd > like to see Ruby beat lib*) and the authenticity of the typesetting tools > (the original reason I started with Plan 9) was compelling. > > Yep. I'm a nerd. But I'm not in a CS/CR (at least not yet). And yes, I do > normal stuff too. I browse the web. I listen to music. I watch movies. And > unlike most people my age, I go to school and succeed. (I don't play sports > because I have a vision disability.) > > Please reconsider your statement. > > >