On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:17 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote:
I too find Linux too mainstream: http://i.imgur.com/Wtm16.png
Bravo.
- Dan C.
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
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
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
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 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.
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 the same
story all over again.
(Or maybe the story never ended. Either way, the users are the ones who lost
out.)
Arnold
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 the same
story all over again.
The question is
Cel. Mustard
With the candlestick
In the Dining Room
Rodrigo Miranda
``The zen master hit me in the head.
I told him:
If you keep hitting me in the head,
I won't be able to learn a thing!
He hit me again.
In
the
head.´´ (Rodrigo Miranda)
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 09:49:41PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
This says a lot, rather nicely:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
The guy whose entire career has been spent cloning DOS and Windows
software claims that Linux sucks because it's not enough like Windows?
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
- erik
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