{"id":522,"date":"2006-07-25T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/07\/25\/an-interesting-plan-9-review\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:53:02","slug":"an-interesting-plan-9-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/07\/25\/an-interesting-plan-9-review\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting Plan 9 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Penguin Pete<\/a> took a whirlwind test drive of Plan 9 and posted a review<\/p>\n

here<\/a>. I found his review quite<\/p>\n

informative and I learned a bit from his travails trying to get the hang of<\/p>\n

Plan 9. One thing that was disappointing was reading his comments. It<\/p>\n

seems there are some people who have to flaunt their knowledge…<\/p>\n

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Your list of downsides demonstrates you ignorance. Start by learning what the Send menu option is for (middle click in Acme win does th same). And learn to use ^F and the ” and “” scripts. Reading the man pages before making clueless claims due to not knowing how the system is a bad idea.<\/p>\n

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While I can understand the viewpoint of the nasty commentor to some extent.<\/p>\n

It is that type of attitude that can easily turn me off. If you<\/p>\n

look at it from the person trying to step into something new… <\/p>\n

it is hard enough slipping out of <\/p>\n

some well-worn shoes to try out those new fangled sneakers without being<\/p>\n

ridiculed for it. (No good deed goes unpunished?) <\/p>\n

I don’t find it acceptable behavior to being snapping at someone when <\/p>\n

they honestly don’t know and are not trying to be malicious. However <\/p>\n

there are times when I would snap. Here are couple of situations<\/p>\n

where I would: <\/p>\n