Subj : Re: linux permissions issue
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Fri Sep 05 2025 06:18 am

On 04 Sep 2025 at 08:10a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> tenser wrote to Digital Man <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  te> Plan 9 divided the network into three categories of machines:
 pF> 
 pF>  te> 1. Terminals, which were the computers you sit in front of and
 pF>  te> 2. CPU servers, which provide bulk compute, or specialized services
 pF>  te> 3. File servers, which provide bulk storage.  These are standalone,
 pF> 
 pF>  This take me back to diskless workstations, NFS/NIS, bootp and Sun
 pF>  workstations...
 pF> 
 pF>  During COVID, I got to see a lot of people's home computing
 pF>  environments remotely. Mostly Mac, but one engineer we had was running
 pF>  Plan9 at home. I should have taken a better look at his setup. I think
 pF>  the idea of shareable CPU servers was what attracted him to it, he did
 pF>  a lot of work with Big Data.

Oh really?  Wow, that's extremely rare.  His name isn't John, is it?

I still run it at home, but I'm the only user.  It runs DNS+DHCP for
our little home network.

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