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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the desktop?
From: Brantley Coile <bwc@coraid.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:03:19 -0400
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>> // 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