On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Corey<co...@bitworthy.net> wrote:
>
> "One computer, Plan 9 only, on bare hardware - which do you prefer:
> terminal kernel or cpu kernel w/ auth and fs enabled? Or is there
> technically no reason to have a preference under the circumstances?"
>
> Your answer: "terminal and just deal with it."
>
> But unfortunately you didn't say why you would choose terminal, and
> you didn't explain what you meant by "just deal with it".
>
A standalone terminal is far from ideal. However, in my experience
I've found working on the console of a CPU/auth/file server (running
rio of course) even less ideal... it's just not meant to be used that
way, while a terminal is. To tell the truth I don't recall exact
problems, but I remember things like auth not working properly when
actually sitting at the console; this may have been due to a slight
misconfiguration, or maybe I just needed to start factotum--I don't
remember. On the other side of the coin, I have a standalone terminal
installation on my laptop, although I normally get root over tcp.
However, when I'm visiting my parents, it isn't feasible to boot from
a filesystem across the country over dialup, so I boot into the
standalone system, dial up, and work like that. It works without
trouble, I just mount the remote filesystem when I need my files and
otherwise work locally.
Assuming you have an account on a public system somewhere--there's
mordor, of course, and I believe there are now a few others, one or
two in Europe and I seem to recall one in New York--you can do just
fine like that. Actually, it was kind of fun to actually use Plan 9
with dialup, felt like the "good old days".
And regarding the "preconceived answers" stuff, I've just seen so many
people with an apparent axe to grind ("For reasons known only to
myself, I must prove that Plan 9 is not a viable Windows replacement
for Joe Sixpack!") that I was expecting one here. Appy-polly-logies
from your humble Narrator.
John
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