On Jan 22, 2008 10:35 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 4:15 AM, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > why use plan 9 at all? why not just install linux or freebsd?
>
> because, like it or not, lack of some familiar apps is a barrier to
> entry for many, if not most, of the people I show Plan 9 to. That
> said,
> I would probably draw the line at KDE ... but not at emacs.
>
Also - some (HPC) apps that we want to run on Plan 9 have silly
dependencies on things like X11. However, that gets into a different
topic than I think the original poster was talking about.
-eric
