Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user

[blstuart@bellsouth.net]

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I don't who and why one referred you to try 9vx
>>
>
> Maybe because it's faster, and easy to install. It only took a few minutes
> to download it, unpack it, and start using it. It's an easy way to get
> acquainted with the Plan 9 environment, and to practice using it. Running
> Plan 9 in QEMU is awkward and slow, and my processor doesn't support an
> accelerator. I can see very well how 9vx might be useful for me, at some
> point.

One way it can be useful is as a replacement for drawterm.
It feels a little more like using a real plan9 terminal than
drawterm does.  That's how I use it at home.  I have a file/
auth/cpu server, and from my FreeBSD machine, I run 9vx
with the -b option.  It's asks for the protocol, the fileserver
and the auth server IP addresses and then I get the same
prompt for username and password I'd get at a real terminal.
Plus, I get the ability to run Plan9 code either locally on
my terminal or I can cpu into the cpu server.  Pretty much
as soon as I got my hands on 9vx, I stopped using drawterm
altogether.

BLS