From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:40:10 -0700 From: Duke Normandin To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology Topicbox-Message-UUID: 96ed51c8-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, David Leimbach wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin wrote: > > > Just read: > > > > http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro > > > > [quote] > > Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate > > machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote] > > > > Does the above imply, that ideally Plan9 should be running on a LAN? > > Not so good as the OS on a stand-alone box? > > -- > > Duke > > > > A lot of us with just one machine to spare tend to install the system, then > build and configure a CPU/Auth/FS server on one box, or even just a VMWare > or other virtualization instance. OK! So it _is_ possible to run a "full" Plan9 OS in one partition, on one machine? > With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file system > parts of your computing system all in one place I understand. In bygone days, Unix shops ran exactly that way. A central file server box, with terminals 9or workstations) connected to it. > From there we can log into our plan 9 server using unix programs like > drawterm, or even 9vx, each of which are more or less ports of Plan 9 to > other OSes with different pros and cons. You bet! > With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file > system parts of your computing system all in one place, and really, > you can just run a terminal and play around with that to get started > if you like. I don't have any extra boxes to play around with at the moment. So if I can let one partition be Plan9 - in all it's glory - so much the better. -- Duke