From: Jason Catena <jason.catena@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:44:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d50d7d460907221544w10b2e1a3ub6ccbeae5d0ae07e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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This passage seems to me to speak to the minimal spirit in Plan 9.
"... the best choice of software is often no software -- and barring that,
as little software as you can possibly get away with, and even then, only
from the most reputable and reliable sources."
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001289.html
I'd add that you need a way to combine what little you have with other
little bits, to build up a new, custom tool that does what you want at this
moment.
I like the part about bluescreening the city block, but hope we're past the
point where anyone would seriously think of wiring Windows that deeply into
the fabric of our real-world systems. I like to think Vista broke the
upgrade spell, and remote computing will anyway make desktop OS choice
mostly irrelevant.
Which brings me to repeat a question about Plan9, from another thread: if
there is no real browser for the platform, how will Plan 9 participate in
the "cloud computing" (r)evolution? I suppose it would be enough to have a
Chromium port, if Chrome and the Chrome OS gain traction.
Jason Catena
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next reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-22 22:44 Jason Catena [this message]
2009-07-22 23:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-22 23:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-22 23:56 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-23 0:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-23 0:47 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-23 9:48 ` C H Forsyth
2009-07-23 10:16 ` [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern Richard Miller
2009-07-23 23:49 ` Fernan Bolando
2009-07-23 23:57 ` John Floren
2009-07-24 0:08 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-24 0:24 ` Fernan Bolando
2009-07-24 4:12 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-24 16:14 ` maht
2009-07-24 16:41 ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-24 16:42 ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-24 17:16 ` [9fans] (no subject) erik quanstrom
2009-07-23 13:05 ` [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser? Jason Catena
2009-07-23 13:57 ` Steve Simon
2009-07-23 14:02 ` erik quanstrom
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