Posts Tagged as ‘Plan9’

2009/03/08

Another Online Desktop Idea

GNOME has its vision of what a online desktop should be. I have another. The idea is to find a replacement for:

VPN network access
XDMCP graphical logins
SSH logins
etc.

My idea – and I am sure I am not the only one having it is to have rather a local login to a desktop – but then be [...]

2008/01/09

Distributions, the Focus & the Future

Looking at the development of Foresight Linux and other distributions I got some thoughts about common problems. One thing I think where the BSDs but also Minix and Plan9 are better is the fact that they tend to build their own software, meaning that they are often not such a mess of so many upstream [...]