On Friday, May 06, 2011 04:56:26 PM Comeau At9Fans wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:47 PM, errno <[email protected]> wrote: > > When friends and family can comfortably use it, for activities other > > than data-archival, then I can deploy it for uses beyond my own limited, > > personal learning projects. The benefit I intend to receive for this is the > > freedom to enjoy Plan 9 more often, while reducing linux dependency, > > and reducing overall costs: both in hardware requirements, and in > > maintenance time/effort. > > How and/or why do you feel it would reduce the hardware requirements of > friends and family? And especially so versus linux? >
The same way a linux terminal server w/ linux thin-clients would reduce hardware requirements. "So why not just use a linux terminal server then?" Because linux lacks the inherent distributed qualities of Plan 9.
