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If it had all of those things, it wouldn't really be Plan 9 any more. Grab a decent Linux box, shove it under your desk, and use VNC or X forwarding to display
by jff 14y ago
If it had all of those things, it wouldn't really be Plan 9 any more.
Grab a decent Linux box, shove it under your desk, and use VNC or X forwarding to display those programs on your Plan 9 terminal. You can keep your storage on a Plan 9 file server, then have your Linux box mount that (9p support is in Linux).
Or, if you're willing to put up with some slightly outdated software, Linuxemu can be a decent choice.
It's doable. I did an awful lot of my graduate work sitting at a Plan 9 terminal, from writing code to just browsing the web with Opera.
- mhurron 14y agoA separate, contained server to run programs that can't talk to anything else is sort of against the whole Plan 9 idea, it's basically what Pike is complaining about here. All you did was turn a Plan 9 into a dumb terminal and NAS. Why would I do that when I could ditch the Plan 9 box and save money just by having the Linux machine, which apparently was needed for running everything in the first place. The idea of Plan 9 was not to have no user applications running on it.