On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM, L N <leonardne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ah, now I see :-) >> >> http://www.clipartguide.com/_named_clipart_images/0511-0701-3117-1335_Skeleton_Behind_a_Business_Desk_clipart_image.jpg >> >> ron > > Maybe. > > The web-browser really is a deal-breaker, though. > > I really enjoyed reading about Plan 9, first at > plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/, and later at cat-v.org. > > As much as I like the design of Plan 9, I also like surfing the web. > > It would be nice to boot Plan 9 natively on AMD-64, type startx, and open a > browser. > > Unfortunately, I'm not at a level where I can really contribute to getting > Plan 9 to that point. > > I think the focus of the Plan 9 community should be just that. > > The goal should be a Plan 9 "distro" that runs natively on AMD-64, and can > open a web-browser. > > With the announcement of NIX, maybe we are already at that point? > > http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/good_bad_ugly/slides/28 > > - Leonard
I think you have seriously misapprehended many things about Plan 9. We don't have X. We are not Linux compatible, although there's a rather decent Linux emulator. There is no GTK, no Qt, no Firefox, no modern C++ compiler. I think it's time for people to stop telling the "Plan 9 community" what its goals should be, when these people haven't even booted Plan 9. John
