From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <74EC26F7-B6A1-4002-90DA-F232F867ACE1@yahoo.ca> From: Steve Simon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <74EC26F7-B6A1-4002-90DA-F232F867ACE1@yahoo.ca> Message-Id: <3D28425D-BA3B-459B-B82C-DB04D16AEB9A@quintile.net> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 21:40:10 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities... Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1676096-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I have a Pi at work and a dual atom file/cpu/auth/etc server at home. it wor= ks well, it takes a few seconds to authenticate but is quick once you are co= nnected. I boot from the pi's flash so I don't really have a terminal but I keep almo= st nothing in the Pi. -Steve > On 30 Sep 2016, at 21:20, Chris McGee wrote: >=20 > It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwi= dth requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a hotel,= compared even to smart phones. >=20 >> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:49 PM, James A. Robinson w= rote: >>=20 >> Is anyone here using Plan 9 as a terminal to connect to remote CPU / File= servers over the internet to get work done? >>=20 >> If I set up a small Plan 9 cluster at home, I'm thinking it'd be pretty n= eat to be able to connect to the network at home over the internet. >>=20 >> While I have a laptop and could put 9front on it, I also really like the t= hought of carrying around a little Raspberry Pi and portable keyboard/mouse a= s an alternative. Sitting here in a cheap motel room, I realized that all t= he hotel rooms I've been in over the past few years have a decent flat scree= n television that takes an HDMI input and has had decent, if not amazing, Wi= Fi to the internet. >>=20 >> Jim >>=20 >=20