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* [9fans] the practicality of plan 9
@ 2022-10-30 17:04 fig
  2022-10-30 17:41 ` sirjofri
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From: fig @ 2022-10-30 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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hi everyone. let me say up front that i do not think plan 9 has to be
practical to be worth liking or using. please do not take this email as
provocative or interrogatory, we are all on the *9fans* mailing list for a
reason.

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 :^)

fig

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2022-11-03 17:03   ` fig
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2022-11-08 23:07       ` fig
2022-11-09  3:20         ` Lucio De Re
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2022-11-09 23:14             ` fig
2022-11-10  3:55               ` adventuresin9
2022-11-10  4:52                 ` fig
2022-11-10 12:05                   ` hiro
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