On Thursday 15 of September 2011 00:54:11 John Floren wrote: > (...) > 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.
I'm one of the `never even booted Plan 9' folks, and I agree with John 100%. Let Plan 9 do things the Plan 9 way, for better or worse. And let the real needs influence what gets implemented first and what later on. If there's pressing need for /native/ full-blown browser, some of the likes of Abaco will be improved to that point. If Plan 9 tries hard to emulate Linux first and innovate second, it'll become stagnant and irrelevant. -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] For example, if the first thing in the file is: <?kzy irefvba="1.0" rapbqvat="ebg13"?> an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional ROT13 encoding. (( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))
