From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <289a5463feb63384149310f5fb8f15b0@coraid.com> From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:13:41 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] rio & acme & plan9 In-Reply-To: <2e4a50a0705041308l35428c44w2e16f8d26a72a22f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 59a76f3c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 you can run p9p (http://swtch.com/plan9port) on linux which gives you acme and a rio-like window manager. i did for some time before switching to plan 9. if you do run plan 9, you do not need to run a seperate fileserver. you can set up a cpu/auth/file server and run drawterm on linux instead of having a terminal. - erik On Fri May 4 16:08:35 EDT 2007, tom.simons@gmail.com wrote: > I have had trouble getting a handle on Plan9. I got it working on an > old PC, but didn't understand if I had a file server, cpu server, > terminal, or all 3. The screens looked great, but I never quite got > the hang of using it. Can Rio/Acme run under Windows or Linux? I'd > love to give it another shot. Must/should you have separate file/cpu > servers?