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From: philo <philo@privacy.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie
Date: Thu,  4 Mar 2004 10:15:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c25er9$1osco6$1@ID-143062.news.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d19c138e3efdc1ffa7d0950dcae4ace@plan9.ucalgary.ca>


"andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
news:7d19c138e3efdc1ffa7d0950dcae4ace@plan9.ucalgary.ca...
> > mostly icewm; but once I tried Plan 9, I kept finding myself
> > myseriously drawn back to it. Acme does that to you. And, even
> > though I'm not a programmer either, I just have a sense that it's a
> > more elegant system.
>
> it's rio's color palette that does it -- scientifically proven to put
> you in a more relaxed, zen state.
>
> things like web browsing, movies, music and IM can be abstracted (when
> and if they arrive) in a rio window and not impair the overall feel of
> the system.  just keep the window small.  there's a reason why links
> stores its configuration files in /tmp.
>
> andrey
>
well i;ve gotten to rio

but am just running Plan 9 locally...
i guess i need to figure out what to do to put it "on-line"

thanks

Philo


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-04 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-03 18:19 philo
2004-03-03 18:33 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-03 18:50 ` Sam
2004-03-04 10:15   ` philo
2004-03-04 13:06     ` a
2004-03-05 10:00       ` Dave Cummings
2004-03-05 10:28         ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-05 11:49         ` philo
2004-03-03 18:58 ` Greg Pavelcak
2004-03-03 19:11   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-04 10:15     ` philo [this message]
2004-03-04 10:15   ` philo
2004-03-04 10:14 ` [9fans] Newbie philo
2004-03-04 10:43   ` matt
2004-03-05  9:59 ` philo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-09 14:00 [9fans] Newbie Russ Cox
2002-09-09  9:50 John Reagan

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