Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

[Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net>]

On 04/18/2009 05:47 AM, Robert Raschke wrote:
> On 4/17/09, Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please set aside rare cases and let us know who except for the students,
>> teachers and, or researchers uses Plan9 and, or Inferno in the offices,
>> homes and, or cafes and for what?
>
> At the risk (or maybe honour :-) of being branded as a rare case (I'm
> neither student, nor teacher, nor hobbyist), I use Plan 9 in to
> maintain my own network, email, web server and wiki, remote editing
> facility (ftpfs) and in terms tools, I use acme a lot wherever I go. I
> also use it as a handy way to store stuff centrally, for easy
> worldwide access via drawterm. I would classify myself as slightly
> paranoid, in that I don't really feel comfortable with letting Google
> have at it willy nilly. Storing stuff at home may be more prone to
> loss, but makes me feel better.
>
> Plan 9 satisfies my curiosity in that I can understand and learn
> things within it quite easily. Every time I have to use something like
> Linux or MS, I feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all.
> That's fine if it's for work (I get paid for that, after all), but not
> for my private life.

Well, that's an example and a good one indeed, that's me. I need not
comment much on your case, because you already have explained all the
details in your own words.

I like sam, acme and other development tools, no doubt Plan9 as whole is
clean and good operating system and environment. Although, it is based
on best techniques, but it is not the best as yet;

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