From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:08:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4e37bd61df0e24c3d5228020201a8ea@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p76hb6x9uc.ln2@news.homelinux.net>
> The Plan9 project started in 1980, took around 9 years to be solid
> enough to be usable and that too by the internal and, or lab people
> [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html] only.
I was using plan9 outside of bell labs in 1993 - not very aggressively
I admit but I didn't have the skils then that I do now. It was solid
and usable at the time.
> Whereas, the FreeBSD
> and, or Linux (though not an OS or Unix variant in a sense) came into
> existence later in 1993 and 1991 respectively are more popular among any
> other variants of Unix.
I first remember seeing references to Linux as a reworking of the Minix project
in 1988. BSD has been around forever.
> IMHO, the Plan9 and, or Inferno are just failed attempts and have no
> real and, or viable commercial and, or industrial use in absence of
> hardware drivers and, or not the killer but some useful applications.
You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion, its a shame you didn't
do more research however.
> Moreover, the user interface and, or window manager i.e. rio is too
> technical for an average user to put in to a good use.
Too "technical"? Really?
> It lacks usual
> buttons for minimizing (hiding), maximizing, controlling windows. You
> can't even send a window to background and even if Inferno's wm has some
> of these including title bars, but the meanings and, or behavior of the
> same is quite different from other popular GUI systems.
Here we agree
-Steve Registered Plan9 User #954854834843
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 6:05 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 11:09 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 12:36 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-14 12:38 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 12:46 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-14 12:37 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 13:17 ` Andrés Domínguez
2009-04-15 8:26 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 11:48 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-17 13:14 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-17 13:00 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-17 13:35 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <F1194F3CF3ADD35D3B0DF261@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-17 14:03 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-18 16:23 ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 16:29 ` lucio
2009-04-17 14:08 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2009-04-17 16:08 ` hiro
2009-04-17 19:26 ` Gorka Guardiola
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 11:52 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-04-20 15:02 ` Uriel
2009-04-20 16:21 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 18:57 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-20 20:22 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-18 0:13 ` Robert Raschke
2009-04-18 5:47 ` lucio
2009-04-18 6:03 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 6:11 ` lucio
2009-04-18 6:08 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-18 16:15 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 16:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18 16:34 ` J.R. Mauro
[not found] ` <87DD0DBADB1647F789D9EB63@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 16:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 18:29 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <0AE52A74098A8B999540233C@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 19:43 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 19:34 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <B6FF436789F29A3B7977687E@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 20:44 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 18:13 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-22 12:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-22 13:09 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-15 13:52 ` lucio
2009-04-15 13:32 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 16:00 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-15 16:09 ` ron minnich
[not found] ` <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-15 13:02 ` hiro
2009-04-15 13:05 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-15 12:50 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 14:00 ` Navin Johnson
2009-04-15 14:39 ` hugo rivera
2009-04-16 14:07 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-17 13:14 ` Jim
2009-04-14 14:46 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 15:41 ` maht
2009-04-14 19:43 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 23:28 ` Jim Habegger
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