From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:44:29 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jason Catena To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e64607c030b361046f531d20 Subject: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2a95bec6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016e64607c030b361046f531d20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --0016e64607c030b361046f531d20 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This passage seems to me to speak to the minimal spirit in Plan 9.

<= blockquote class=3D"webkit-indent-blockquote" style=3D"margin: 0 0 0 40px; = border: none; padding: 0px;">"... the best choice of software is often= no software -- and barring that, as little software as you can possibly ge= t away with, and even then, only from the most reputable and reliable sourc= es."

http://www.codi= nghorror.com/blog/archives/001289.html

I'd add that you need a way to combine what li= ttle you have with other little bits, to build up a new, custom tool that d= oes 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. =A0I like to think Vista broke the upgrade spel= l, and remote computing will anyway make desktop OS choice mostly irrelevan= t.

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? =A0I suppos= e it would be enough to have a Chromium port, if Chrome and the Chrome OS g= ain traction.

Jason Catena

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