Re: [9fans] rio & acme & plan9

[Kim Shrier <kim@tinker.com>]

On May 7, 2007, at 12:29 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:

> a cpu server is a shared service, assumed to be running all the time.
> a terminal is a personal machine that is not assumed to be up when
> the user is not logged in.  you're supposed to be able to turn off  
> your
> terminal when you go home.
>

Just to make sure I have this straight, a cpu server is not running
a terminal server as its console.  The keyboard, mouse, and display
on the cpu server are not under the control of a terminal server.

> so the idea of running auth on a personal machine doesn't really make
> sense.  and although you can run fossil on a terminal, this makes it
> harder to just turn the machine off.
>

That makes sense.

> so i think the minimum setup (outside of a stand alone laptop) needs
> at least a cpu/auth/file server and a terminal, or drawterm.
>

That is the setup I am going for (cpu/auth/file server and drawterm).
However, for someone who only has one machine, what is the preferred
setup and why?

I realize that the previous question could be an invitation to a holy
war.  That is not my intent.  I have been thinking about computers from
a UNIX perspective for a long time and I have a lot of inertia to
overcome. Explanations of motivation or why something is done the way it
is, is very instructive to me at my current state of non-understanding.

> i did run a standalone terminal+fossil for a while but with no  
> authentication.
> not that it mattered -- there was no one to authenticate.
>
> - erik
>

Kim