From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Cloud Nine   wrote:   
   >   
   >Some of the ideas in plan9 are useful. However, the plan9 project fails to   
   provide a coherent and intutive GUI, editor, web browser, and file browser   
   that are ready to use out of the box. It is too arcane for mere mortals to   
   even try to use.   
      
   On one hand, it was never really intended for that.  On the other hand,   
   Linux was really never intended for that anyway and community support   
   changed it until it slowly and then suddenly took off.   
      
   >Having great ideas does no good when one must have a compsci PhD as a bar to   
   entry.   
      
   But CS students and professors were the original audience for the system. Not   
   to say that it couldn't become wider-known but it didn't.  The folks writing   
   it didn't plan for it to grow (any more than Linus planned for Linux to grow).   
      
   >As with Linux and Linux distros, the project is more about promoting the   
   project than providing something for people to improve their work flow.   
      
   This is true.  There were plenty of other Unixlike kernels out there at the   
   time Linux came about, from little things like xinu and minix to commercial   
   products like qnx.  But the community is what made Linux what it is today.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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