Hello, I am not sure this email ever made it to the forum, hence I decided to ask once more...
Thanks for any comments... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rudolf Sykora <[email protected]> Date: 16 June 2016 at 10:30 Subject: ubiquitous environment? To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]> Hello, everyone, I read the following some time ago and now got back to it. It's from an interview with Russ Cox. https://usesthis.com/interviews/russ.cox/ -------------- The thing I miss most about Plan 9 was the way that no matter which computer you sat down at, you had the same environment. Because we were working off a shared file server - there were no local disks on the Plan 9 workstations - you could go home and log in and all your work was there waiting. Of course, it only worked because we had good, fast connectivity to the file server, and only file state - not application state - transferred, but it was still a huge win. Today it's taken for granted that everyone has local files on disk and you need programs like Unison or Dropbox (or for the power users, Mercurial or Git) to synchronize them, but what we had in Plan 9 was completely effortless, and my dream is to return to that kind of environment. I want to be working on my home desktop, realize what time it is, run out the door to catch my train, open my laptop on the train, continue right where I left off, close the laptop, hop off the train, sit down at work, and have all my state sitting there on the monitor on my desk, all without even thinking about it. -------------- Has anyone tried a setup like that? -- Having a server at work and working on it even from home/anywhere? And how is it set up? Does it mean that wherever you sit you somehow mount the window system to get to the exactly same state that you left the machine in? (Ie. something like a screen/tmux but supplied by the system itself?) Thanks for any comments! Ruda
