From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 20:08:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9526966af259bbe8be7c3dcca184537@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547D3967.2020200@gr13.net>
> > But, IMHO, this is precisely the difference between Unix and Plan9.
> >
> > In Unix, the console or X11 are dumb terminals. There are only
> > no-computing-capabilities devices to interact; they are no terminals as
> > in Plan9.
>
> Okay, than that's perhaps what I'm missing yet.
>
> To mimic the usual Unix behaviour, I would need some getty/login-alike
> program, which asks for login credentials and then starts up things
> like shell or gui (some window-manager-/DE-alike program) as the
> corresponding, which then is _not_ the hostowner.
has it occured to you to try the system out as is? nobody else has
asked for it to be more unix like in the same way. perhaps there's
good reason for it to be the way it is.
actually, i'll make you a deal, i'll try to answer your questions the
best i know how, but you have to try the system and use it a bit before
asking any more.
fair?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-02 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-17 5:03 Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-17 5:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-11-17 6:29 ` lucio
2014-11-17 13:58 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-17 14:14 ` lucio
2014-11-18 8:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-11-29 19:46 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-29 19:46 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-29 21:20 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-29 21:23 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 6:28 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-01 7:00 ` lucio
2014-12-01 10:38 ` tlaronde
2014-12-01 10:45 ` lucio
2014-12-02 4:00 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 4:08 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-12-02 15:40 ` plannine
2014-12-02 16:33 ` Wes Kussmaul
2014-12-02 20:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02 22:20 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 9:50 ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 22:15 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-01 12:14 ` Stuart Morrow
2014-12-02 20:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-01-01 14:55 ` Teodoro Santoni
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