From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:03:17 +0000 From: Balwinder S Dheeman Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <201210171949.q9HJnfon003990@skeeve.com>, <20121017200938.198DB12BB12E@r-36.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf488876-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Greetings comrades. > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins wrote: >> This says a lot, rather nicely: >> >> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html >> >> Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same >> story all over again. > > The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop? 1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit 2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools 3) Lack of a decent web0browser 4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client 5) Lack of an Office Applications suite ... ... ... z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)