On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:58 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

> A plan9 terminal can run programs, and can have a local storage file
> system, with multiple users.

i think this is misleading. while the fs running on the terminal can have
multiple users, it is not true that you can have multiple users using
the cpu resources of a terminal concurrently.

you can have all that and auth if you run a single machine with a cpu
kernel with the downside that if you use the console you must be eve.

since it's easy to get small, cheep, low-power machines, i run a
traditional terminal with a seperate auth and fs.

You can even run 9vx as a totally reasonable terminal now... On a system that needs not be dedicated to Plan 9, and still have your CPU/FS/AUTH elsewhere. (Thanks Russ!)

I'm a big fan of this approach, if people find it difficult to justify a whole machine as a Plan 9 terminal.

I think Inferno is somewhat usable for this purpose even too right? I've just never managed to get it going (or admittedly spent much time trying).

Dave

- erik