Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:

> Just read:
>
> http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro
>
> [quote]
> Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate
> machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote]
>
> Does the above imply, that ideally Plan9 should be running on a LAN?
> Not so good as the OS on a stand-alone box?
> --
> Duke
>
> A lot of us with just one machine to spare tend to install the system, then
build and configure a CPU/Auth/FS server on one box, or even just a VMWare
or other virtualization instance.

With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file system
parts of your computing system all in one place

>From there we can log into our plan 9 server using unix programs like
drawterm, or even 9vx, each of which are more or less ports of Plan 9 to
other OSes with different pros and cons.

With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file system
parts of your computing system all in one place, and really, you can just
run a terminal and play around with that to get started if you like.

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