From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:03:16 -0500 From: blstuart@bellsouth.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user Topicbox-Message-UUID: eeb7fffe-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman 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