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From: Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:24:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101131315090.4272@fryrpg-zna> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2F5B74.5070908@gmail.com>

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote:

[snip]

> If you only have one computer available and have to dual-boot, you can
> actually do pretty good with a simple, standalone terminal (this is what
> gets installed by default). You can then get an account at one or two of
> the public Plan 9 servers and connect from your terminal.

Do you mean the Plan 9 terminal that you mention below? Roughly, what
does this installation include?

> If you have a second computer available that you can devote to Plan 9 (a
> Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM will perform admirably), I recommend that
> you find the instructions on the wiki for setting up a standalone CPU
> server
> (http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Configuring_a_standalone_CPU_server/index.html)
> and follow them. You will end up with a Plan 9 cpu/auth/file server all
> on one box, to which you can then connect from a Plan 9 terminal, 9vx on
> Linux, or drawterm on Linux/OS X/Windows.

I see! Plan 9 is essential a "server" OS. That's it!  That's all! It
can't be run as a client and server all on one box.

> Personally, I've run at least half a dozen Plan 9 servers over the
> years, always installing a full cpu/auth/file server, usually on any PC
> I can scrape together out of the parts bin or the loading dock. Then I
> just connect from my desktop using drawterm, or I use the Thinkpad with
> Plan 9 installed as a terminal.

Been there; done that! with FreeBSD. :)

> Good luck; Plan 9 is a very fun system.

Sounds like it might be. Thanks for the input!
--
Duke



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-13 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-13 18:38 Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 18:48 ` dukeofperl
2011-01-13 18:50 ` David Leimbach
2011-01-13 19:16   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-13 19:31     ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 19:37       ` Jacob Todd
2011-01-13 19:44       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-13 20:08         ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 21:01           ` Tassilo Philipp
2011-01-13 21:39           ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-01-13 22:49             ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14  3:27               ` blstuart
2011-01-14  4:02                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-14  4:18                   ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14  4:04                 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14  0:00           ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-01-14  3:26             ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 19:46     ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-13 20:11       ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 19:40   ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 20:07     ` John Floren
2011-01-13 20:24       ` Duke Normandin [this message]
2011-01-13 20:40         ` John Floren
2011-01-13 21:37           ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 21:59             ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-01-13 22:32               ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 23:18             ` John Floren
2011-01-14  3:42               ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14  4:03                 ` John Floren
2011-01-14  4:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-14  4:15                   ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14  4:22                     ` John Floren
2011-01-14  4:31                       ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14  4:35                         ` Jacob Todd
2011-01-14 17:51                         ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-14 17:54                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-14 18:14                             ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-14 19:13                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-14 19:24                                 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14 20:44                                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-14 18:15                             ` Charles Forsyth
2011-01-14 18:14                         ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-01-14 18:35                           ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14 14:58 erik quanstrom
2011-01-14 17:14 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14 17:40   ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-14 18:58     ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-14 19:09       ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-14 19:23       ` Charles Forsyth
2011-01-14 19:22         ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-15  0:16           ` Charles Forsyth

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