On Thursday, April 28, 2011 08:03:23 PM erik quanstrom wrote: > > Though I don't understand why folks around here complain about > > "linux" so often and so vehemently, when the only reason why you're > > complaining is because you _need_ linux... to furnish all the things > > you can't do with plan 9 - either personally, or within your > > organization. > > people who care about Doing Things Right are easy to upset. >
Bloat... can't live with it, can't live without it. ... I hope that something better comes along. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaP_kc3y9w On Thursday, April 28, 2011 08:11:49 PM andrey mirtchovski wrote: > errno, you sound like you may be trespassing on our collective 9fans > lawn. i wave a cane in your general direction. > Plan 9 rules and linux drools - I get it - but, wake me up when there's a Grand Unified Solution for implementing a perfectly clean, multi-purpose, general-use operating platform for an ad-hoc, rapidly (d)evolving, messy industry/market/society - that isn't itself intrinsically, hopelessly bloated in order to fulfill said purpose. Until then, complaining about de-facto linux bloat is a lot like complaining about death and taxes. Boring and disingenuous. IMHO, at least. (I'm just glad the collective plan 9 lawn expands far beyond the pointless linux-hate gazebo.)
