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. -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z li...@home (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/
