erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
- erik
The Plan 9 desktop was never aimed at the consumer market, which is
what Miguel was bemoaning for Linux. Plan 9 was never even aimed the
broader Unix / software
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:05:08PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
Having forgotten that a market for a sensible solution is a niche
market. Only stupidity and lack of reflexion can replace the what do
I need with i don't know what I
On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
Greetings comrades.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins arn...@skeeve.com wrote:
This says a lot, rather nicely:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's
On 2012-10-18 11:03 , Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
Greetings comrades.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins arn...@skeeve.com
wrote:
This says a lot, rather nicely:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
Having
As a side effect of the raspberry pi work, I've produced an SD card
driver for the sheevaplug (and presumably other kirkwood platforms).
It's in two sections: the top layer does the card protocol and is
identical between rpi and kw (could go into /sys/src/9/port?), while
the lower layer does the
that's what I thought. :)
On Oct 18, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Oleksandr Iakovliev yshu...@lynxline.com wrote:
On 2012-10-18 11:03 , Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
Greetings comrades.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins arn...@skeeve.com
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools
3) Lack of a decent web0browser
4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client
5) Lack
erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
- erik
The Plan 9 desktop was never aimed at the consumer market, which is
[...]
that was supposed to be a switcheroo, not a comment on plan 9 graphics
or the
erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
it's just resting!
but maybe it should die
yes
no modern GUI, c.
(and I'm grateful for that! :)
but Plan 9 (and other software)
can be much more useful by exposition
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
If developmental stability was all it took to attract third party developers
then why didn't FreeBSD win the desktop a decade ago? Or indeed Plan 9 (I
suppose this is reductio)?
Dne čtvrtek, 18. října 2012 14:23:03 UTC+2 Oleksandr Iakovliev napsal(a):
1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
...
But that's the list of benefits, isn't? :)
I mostly agree except the browser.
I would appreciate a well working browser in the P9 too. ;)
Pavel
Would anyone with a sheevaplug or similar, and a collection of SD
cards, like to try it out before I submit a patch?
I just tried with various 2 GB to 16 GB Kingston SD and
microSD (with adapter) cards on my SheevaPlug and it works
like a charm.
Thanks for your very nice work.
--
David du
the solution is
to just stop worrying and love
the bitmap font because there
are more important things
in life.
such as not inserting spurious
new lines
in mailing list posts.
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Albert Skye wrote:
erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
The question is rather: What
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:20:47AM -0700, Albert Skye wrote:
erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
it's just resting!
but maybe it should die
yes
no modern GUI, c.
(and I'm grateful for that! :)
Thanks!!! I plan to try it out on sheeva and guru later today.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Richard Miller 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote:
As a side effect of the raspberry pi work, I've produced an SD card
driver for the sheevaplug (and presumably other kirkwood platforms).
It's in two
A well working browser is an OS these days. A bit of a dilemma that. ;-)
On Oct 18, 2012 3:25 PM, Pavel Klinkovsky pavel.klinkov...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dne čtvrtek, 18. října 2012 14:23:03 UTC+2 Oleksandr Iakovliev napsal(a):
1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
...
A well working browser is an OS these days. A bit of a dilemma that. ;-)
you overestimate how complicated an os needs to be.
- erik
Precisely. The correlation between what makes something
good and what makes something popular is small but negative.
One of the primary reasons I stopped using Linux was that
it was becoming too mainstream and just like all the
commercial junk out there.
I too find Linux too mainstream:
On 2012-10-18 18:52 , erik quanstrom wrote:
A well working browser is an OS these days. A bit of a dilemma that. ;-)
you overestimate how complicated an os needs to be.
- erik
Browsers are on the dark side - they have cookies
On Oct 18, 2012 11:44 AM, Kurt H Maier kh...@intma.in wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:20:47AM -0700, Albert Skye wrote:
erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
it's just resting!
but maybe it
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:37:57PM -0400, Corey Thomasson wrote:
Everyday I'm slightly more convinced that you're a highly sophisticated
Markov chain.
How do you feel about you're a highly sophisticated
Markov chain?
http://planb.lsub.org/ls/octopus.html
is a user interface that includes graphics, exploits name space
representations, and doesn't just mimic the xerox desktop.
On Oct 18, 2012 2:34 PM, Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com
wrote:
Erudite Glenda in Winter?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote:
Precisely. The correlation between what makes something
good and what makes something popular is small but negative.
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