On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:45:17 -0700 David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's officially a port of Plan 9's kernel to the vx32 stuff, so it's > not precisely the same as running a Plan 9 box natively, or in another > emulator, but it is indeed quite a feat, and "close enough" that most people > won't notice. > Personally, I'd love to be able to completely replace drawterm with 9vx, but > for some reason I still have a little trouble with that setup (in fact I've > not finished setting up my CPUFSAUTH server yet, so really I'm the reason > for that). Running 9vx instances as Plan 9 terminals fits better with the Plan 9 way than running Drawterm, aye. :) I'd like to but I use Rio's hold feature for making quick notes all the time, notes which I need to have around for a few days. I don't think I'll be using 9vx for terminal work until at least 6 months after I hear the last word about it crashing. Now 9vx for CPU work; that's another matter. That could very well work better for me than my present QEmu-based CPU server, perhaps with a QEmu-based file server. OTOH I'd still need a QEmu-based terminal server sort of wierd thing to use with drawterm, which leaves me pondering the port assignments if not the overall logic of the setup.... Hmm! :) Anyway, I think 9vx is a great thing too, despite the occasional crash. As someone posted a week or two ago it even works well for testing many kernel changes, having minimal boot-up time. As to changing the Plan 9 homepage, that may be a difficult matter. The wiki seems largely kept up to date, but the homepage and recommended reading not so much. > > Another interesting project would be an Inferno based drawterm :-)... but > I'd be lying if I said I had any time for that kind of fun. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
