> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman > <bdhee...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I don't who and why one referred you to try 9vx >> > > Maybe because it's faster, and easy to install. It only took a few minutes > to download it, unpack it, and start using it. It's an easy way to get > acquainted with the Plan 9 environment, and to practice using it. Running > Plan 9 in QEMU is awkward and slow, and my processor doesn't support an > accelerator. I can see very well how 9vx might be useful for me, at some > point.
One way it can be useful is as a replacement for drawterm. It feels a little more like using a real plan9 terminal than drawterm does. That's how I use it at home. I have a file/ auth/cpu server, and from my FreeBSD machine, I run 9vx with the -b option. It's asks for the protocol, the fileserver and the auth server IP addresses and then I get the same prompt for username and password I'd get at a real terminal. Plus, I get the ability to run Plan9 code either locally on my terminal or I can cpu into the cpu server. Pretty much as soon as I got my hands on 9vx, I stopped using drawterm altogether. BLS
