Quoth fig <type9fr...@gmail.com>: > so i ask: what are ways i could make a grid really shine? through design > and/or usage, things that make a grid nice to have. i still enjoy 9front on > a single machine, and plan9port is now a must-have on my unix machines. i > know plan 9 wants a network, but why would a user want plan 9 to have a > network? if that makes any sense :^)
As a single user, the biggest benefit I get is being able to rapidly test and debug, with netboot, shared binaries, and the ability to panic without losing any work, and being able to share stuff with my home machine when I'm hacking in a coffee shop (like I am now) With a group of people, being able to share servers means being able to share work. At the hackathon last summer, we had set up a CPU/file server. We were netbooting test kernels, but also sharing our work in progress, data, and documents via our home dirs, getting feedback, and even at times just editing other people's files (the file server had permissions wide open) ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td6c4be6d8502dbd0-Mde109e6c3a6a18b64306ac1d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
