From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 20:08:04 -0800 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <547D3967.2020200@gr13.net> References: <547C0A85.9090906@gr13.net> <873a3482d7cbc73496b64baa73c718a5@proxima.alt.za> <20141201103810.GA541@polynum.com> <547D3967.2020200@gr13.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL Topicbox-Message-UUID: 319c23aa-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > 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