Re:The Unix spirit set free: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2006) [pdf]
by quintile on Monday June 02, 2014 @09:08AM
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I have been using plan9 as my desktop since 2000.
As people have said browser support is an issue, there is linuxemu + firefox but I prefer to remote desktop/vnc to
a windows/linux VM that my work's IT dept look after.
In this day and age throwing another VM at the problem is not a big deal, and is definitely easier than porting webkit.
I write C code for embedded and server side code so I can write this in portable C and run it on windows, Linux, plan9 or embedded under threadx.
Its an environment I am used to and I like it,
I find I am productive with it.
As people have said browser support is an issue, there is linuxemu + firefox but I prefer to remote desktop/vnc to a windows/linux VM that my work's IT dept look after.
In this day and age throwing another VM at the problem is not a big deal, and is definitely easier than porting webkit.
I write C code for embedded and server side code so I can write this in portable C and run it on windows, Linux, plan9 or embedded under threadx.
Its an environment I am used to and I like it, I find I am productive with it.
-Steve