Re: [9fans] Wearables

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

> On 5/17/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Well, Ron, as explained elsewhere, our display gets hard to read pretty easily.
>> Even 80x24 may be too small for continued use; it's something that will need to
>> be tested.
> 
> I'm with Charles on this one. I do a lot of work with Plan 9 systems
> that don't use rio or any wm for that matter. On those systems, the
> network is everything. Maybe you're not going to run connected.
> 
> But, in our case, we had systems w/o a graphical display, that I
> needed to run connected, and I would have been very unhappy doing
> those systems with anything but Plan 9.
> 
> I see your point re the display, but based on our experience, I still
> think Linux is going to limit you in the end.
> 
> That said, there's lots more tty eye candy for Linux these days ...
> some things are truly easier with Linux. Just none of the network
> things.
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron

Plan 9 fails for GUI-less use. If we go to a GUI system at some point,
I think it may be back in the running, but consider the current 
requirements. We need something:
-That has a good CLI
-That can handle wireless
-That has a lot of CLI-oriented applications

Linux has support for a *lot* of wireless cards. It's based on a system
that was designed for CLI use. It's got emacs, so I guess that answers
all questions about CLI-oriented applications.
Plan 9... working at the plain old command line, can you even interrupt
a program? The two main editors are GUI based (not gonna use 'ed'). As
seems apparent, it has far fewer supported wireless cards. It runs on
fewer machines.
Somebody, quick, send me a decent head mounted display, a Twiddler,
and a little machine that can run Plan 9 with supported wireless. I'll
set it all up, use it to access csplan9. Then I'll post pictures on the
wiki. Until then, I guess I'm still gonna end with Linux.

John