From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <038D1F1F-7497-495B-9735-7CC19E05FFBF@tinker.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kim Shrier Subject: Re: [9fans] rio & acme & plan9 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 13:00:02 -0600 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5eec456c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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