Re: [9fans] consterm

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 11/6/07, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not just use Inferno? Caerwyn posted two lines that can
> be run on an inferno terminal and will 'cpu' into a plan9 box.
>

I'm looking for something lighter weight than Inferno or full-blown
Drawterm -- something that lets me 'cpu' from an xterm is just about
right -- and I can accept using a 'consterm' version of drawterm to
get that light-weight access.  Part of this is personal laziness -- I
usually need to get in and out to copy files, which I could do if I
just used a proper v9fs setup plus factotum.

I actually wanted one of these for Inferno as well - we were using a
single Inferno instance to manage multiple libOS partitions - it
seemed kind of silly to start up other Inferno partitions just to
launch applications on the "controller" Inferno.  I ended up working
around this in another way, but something like cpu would have been
preferable.

However, I'm also thinking longer term - towards the FastOS project
where users aren't going to necessarily want to fire up a whole
'environment' such as Inferno or Drawterm just to execute an
application on the cluster -- particularly if that application isn't
graphical.

        -eric