> so suppose we have javascript and all that jazz working on plan 9, > would all that goo have vitiated the reason we were drawn to plan 9 > in the first place?
Because I need to share bits with people who use MS Office, I need to run OpenOffice roughly daily. But not all day, so a combination of VNC to a FreeBSD machine and an emulated Linux running under Plan 9 for travel would cut it. I need to run a web browser pretty much all the time, though, and it's hard to say when I'll need something that renders actual web pages or some horrible JavaScript thing dreamt up by HR. So for me I think the barrier to booting Plan 9 on my laptop every day (assuming for the moment no ACPI) would be the lack of a Firefox-class browser. But maybe the best way to get one would be a stripped-down BSD release running in a Plan 9 dom0. At least, the FreeBSD guys have done pretty well running random Linux binaries... Dave Eckhardt
