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 lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same >>> story all over again. >> >> 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 of an Office Applications suite > ... > ... > ... > z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go >
But that's the list of benefits, isn't? :)
