From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D2B091D.4070209@nas.com> From: Jack Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu References: <20020709031716.3805.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Wahoo! (Warning: Blatant Newbie Bliss) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:02:37 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c757b774-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I just want to say: FUN! In my little test bed I've got a 1GHz CPU/auth/fs server, a 100MHz terminal booting off the fs, and about 40GB of venti storage currently backing up my samba/netatalk shares via u9fs. I'm so thoroughly impressed by its usability and performance I can hardly contain myself. It's pretty slick having a terminal that's an order of magnitude slower than the CPU server and not worrying about it (or even noticing) in the least. Good video and Ethernet cards go a long way. Plus, less than a week of rc scripting has noticeably changed the way I now deal with bash. The experience has been invaluable. As a side note, I used to be an Oberon addict, and I became interested in Plan 9 years ago through Rob's work with acme. With the VMS/NeXT/Linux asides in the interim, in so many ways finally putting Plan 9 to work feels a lot more like coming home than a diversion. Thank you. -Jack