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From: Brantley Coile <bwc@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the desktop?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:03:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d05ecc5ad770ba1b1d397c346655a6d2@borf.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6eb474ce96f2087cdd959b5e78403b9@plan9.escet.urjc.es>

>> // as a replacement for, say, Windows or Linux?
>> 
>> not really, no.
> 
> Yes really, yes. At least, some of us do that.
> Of course, you don't need to use the same OS
> for all tasks all the time. For us, it's 90% Plan 9 and 10% XP|Lunix.

I, too, use Plan 9 like this.  I'm using drawterm on XP--all my iMac's
broke!  We use OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux as well.  Plan 9 is meant to
do what it was meant to do and it would be a big waste of time to
reinvent all the Mac and Windows applications.

And the user interface for the technical users would begin to suck.

 Brantley



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19 13:03 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 [this message]
2004-04-19 15:33     ` a
2004-04-19 14:28 ` ron minnich
2004-04-20  8:38 ` [9fans] " Diego Calleja

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