a month or so ago, i tried ‘getting into’ plan 9, and i have been unsuccessful due to the difficulty of making a grid when i can’t port forward or basic protocols like irc or torrent on my university network. that being said, i have not given up, and my plan 9 plans are lying dormant until i can attend the next sdf plan 9 bootcamp (when is that btw?) which im betting on improving my proficiency with the OS so i can solve these problems. 

but today i was thinking about my grid, what my cpu server and file server would be, and i realized that these servers would likely be not much more powerful than the “terminal” machine i would be accessing them from in the first place. now this doesn’t make plan 9 useless— it’s still so interesting to me— but i want to be able to find some advantage to having a grid.

so i ask: what are ways i could make a grid really shine? through design and/or usage, things that make a grid nice to have. i still enjoy 9front on a single machine, and plan9port is now a must-have on my unix machines. i know plan 9 wants a network, but why would a user want plan 9 to have a network? if that makes any sense :^)

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