Hmm. It seems to me that the platform you are talking about is exactly the kind of environment that I think about. What´s the difference? I must be missing something.
You have just files and services (including devices). You want your laptop (or PDA) to work standalone, but you still want the stateless terminal that Plan 9 provides (so you have to administer just one or a few machines). To me, it seems that replicating (sort of caching, like in coda) your FS into your standalone machines is the easy way to do that. The only inconvenience that I see in Plan 9 is that when the environment is too dynamic you have to do many things by hand; but that can be fixed. Regarding aliens (Linux, etc.), if you can combine storage and services between all your systems, you end up thinking that you have a single system. > So the big question here is -- what would a more modern environment be, > and what could plan9 (or a system like it) do to fit in better. Plan B > looks like its addressing this issue in one sense (although perhaps not in > the type of environment I would typically use computers in today). > there and what environment do people think is reasonable? Seems like > everyone has several fast machines, many of them mobile, often being > disconnected from one network and attached to another (or used > disconnected). Often people want a filesystem and cpu server on their > portable platform. There are lots of small ultra-mobile platforms. Energy > use is more a concern than it was before. > > Tim Newsham > http://www.lava.net/~newsham/ >
