From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:50:51 -0800 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e644ce46ef29e00499becb07 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology Topicbox-Message-UUID: 96b39064-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016e644ce46ef29e00499becb07 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin 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. --0016e644ce46ef29e00499becb07 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke N= ormandin <dukeof= perl@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 ten= d to install the system, then build and configure a CPU/Auth/FS server on o= ne 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
<= br>
From there we can log into our plan 9 server using unix progr= ams like drawterm, or even 9vx, each of which are more or less ports of Pla= n 9 to other OSes with different pros and cons.

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




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