From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC From: Brantley Coile Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:26:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 38bfcb60-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Jan 25, 2008 7:55 AM, wrote: >> it really does not make any sense to write web browser from the ground >> up, if there is a workable version. > > here we go again... > why use Plan 9 at all if every mainstream operating system is 'workable'? > i guess workable is not the point. > > iru Plan 9 is not, and should not in my opinion, be a Linux replacment, Unix replacement, MS Windows replacement, and so on. If you really want Plan 9 to dominate the world and see all your friends use it every day, invent a killer application for it. That's the only way you can shove existing systems of their pedestals. Making Plan 9 exactly like Linux, or Windows, or son on, will not cause people to leave the real Linux or Windows and use Plan 9. Lack of a browser is not why only the select few use Plan 9. It's a culture thing. If you want Linux you know where to find it.