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

[Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman@gmail.com>]

On 04/15/2009 05:22 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Eris Discordia wrote:
>
>> Plan 9 is not intended for home or home office.
>
> True, but that doesn't mean it can't be used in such an environment. I
> type all my reports up in Plan 9.

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?

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. 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.

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.

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. 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.

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