From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:49:58 +0200 To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52 From: csant Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060724160009.A640A5AF70@mail.cse.psu.edu> <53f976bd0607240938i79313aa5nf6e33e176868a2bb@mail.gmail.com> <44C51F7A.4050604@lanl.gov> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <44C51F7A.4050604@lanl.gov> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.01 (Linux) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89e59922-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:28:58 +0200, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Another thing I ought to mention here. A LOT of the Plan 9 guys have two > spouses: their plan 9 machine and their windows or linux or macos > system. That tells me that Plan 9 has not been, and is not, sufficiently > capable to be the only system one uses. Allow me a question: what exactly is it that the long-term Plan 9 users miss on Plan 9, to look for it on some other system? An application I understand people use regularly via VNC is a browser - is there anything else that really is missing? You mention "third party apps": what exactly is missing? And mainly: what is the reason for it missing? /c