On Mon May 7 15:00:02 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just to make sure I have this straight, a cpu server is not running > a terminal server as its console. The keyboard, mouse, and display > on the cpu server are not under the control of a terminal server.
yes. except in plan 9 a terminal is the opposite of a server so they're generally refered to as terminals. > That is the setup I am going for (cpu/auth/file server and drawterm). > However, for someone who only has one machine, what is the preferred > setup and why? i don't think anything is perferred about such a setup. however, i ran a terminal with fossil only for about 6 months before i got a fs working. this was acceptable for working on stuff. > I realize that the previous question could be an invitation to a holy > war. That is not my intent. I have been thinking about computers from > a UNIX perspective for a long time and I have a lot of inertia to > overcome. Explanations of motivation or why something is done the way it > is, is very instructive to me at my current state of non-understanding. sounds like you're getting it. the papers in /sys/doc are still good, though dated. - erik
