Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

is this some sort of MVS type of spam?

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Purple_Q <bitpusher2600@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greets all. I'll cut straight to the chase for those who don't like
> reading long posts, else please bare with me and read this entire post
> so you can offer an opinion.
>
> I would like to erect a site that aims to show Plan9 in a more user/
> desktop direction for those who share the enthusiast/niche category. I
> want to put up a site with information for users; not how to manage a
> mainframe or something, but with info like how to download and install
> 3rd party apps, how to access usb keys and install apps (for those
> like me who's ethernet card doesn't work in plan9), and things like
> how to burn CD's, how to add users and "faces", how to change the
> background (if that can even be done).
> In short; simple user functions. Plan9, while I know there are some
> here that would disagree, never seemed to me to be geared towards the
> casual desktop user (it is a research OS no?). I would like to show it
> in a different light, with help from anyone here who will contribute
> walkthrus, command strings, and howtos.
> I also wouldn't mind if enough of the community would elect someone
> (if interested) that I would give FTP access to, to help manage the
> site and add things, etc.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Now for the more patient readers; here's the HOW and WHY.
> For the HOW;
> I have a corny little personal homesite at www.queuevonqu.com
> I pay just short of $15 a month for unlimited webspace. I have a half
> serious, half for fun project as a chiptune producer (which if you're
> not familiar, chiptune is a genre of electronic music that is made
> using the sound hardware of vintage video game systems or computer
> hardware, in my case, a pair of Atari 2600's). The website address is
> www.bitpusher2600.net.
> See, I bought the domain name from GoDaddy and have it set up to
> forward to the actual address, which is a subdomain on my homesite :
> bitpusher2600.queuevonqu.com
>
> I am thinking that if I get enough support from the board here
> (digital support, NOT money), I will make the same setup with
> something like "plan9-4u.net" or "plan9desktop.net" or something like
> that (name suggestions welcome!)
>
> For the WHY:
> I grew up with (and my first computer as a child for xmas) was an
> Apple. I got some PC experience much later. Anyway, I was around 17 or
> so when someone introduced me to linux. He had several distros and at
> first I was intrigued, but not overly impressed. I tried quite a few
> in a month's time until I came upon Slackware. He told me of all of
> them to use and learn on, that one was the toughest he had and is
> considered quite advanced. Being someone who sees sheer beauty in
> minimalism, I was loving it's lack of "over guification".
>
> I experienced this MAGNETISM, I couldn't stop thinking about what I
> was seeing and would day dream about it often. Unbelievable emotion. I
> used it for just a hair over 9 years straight, never even trying
> another distro because I loved what I had and was quite comfortable.
> The same thing happened when I met a fella online recently who was a
> nut for FreeBSD. We got to talking in a forum and he told me "if
> you're a Slackware veteran, you'll almost be quite at home, and plus
> blah blah blah" (onward with the list of advantages and superiority of
> it compared to linux). That was just a couple months ago, nowadays i'm
> a pure FreeBSD user.
>
> Why tell all of that? I'm experiencing the same feelings with Plan9,
> though the funny thing is I can hardly do a damn thing with it at the
> moment. I have no clue how to access my thumb drive, how to install
> 3rd party software, etc. I need walkthrus and etc, people to "hold my
> hand" along the way. How to do simple user tasks.
>
> I can't help it though, i'm totally "in love" with this OS and am
> driven to figure it out, which is why I bother you kind folks all the
> time :)
>
> So indeed, it's a learning experience for me. I'd like to take
> everything a desktop user (like me) can learn in Plan9 and put it up
> for direct and easy reference for others. Also, to help promote Plan9
> and bring it to the attention of fellow linux and BSD geeks who might
> enjoy using it. I realize it's not got alot of modern things, like
> flash and java, I don't know that it has IM or the such either, but I
> thought I read somewhere once that Mplayer works for it???
>
> If you've read all of this i'm very grateful. I really would like to
> put up a minimalistic, simple website for end-users to learn simple
> and common "desktop" administration, myself included.
>
> **For those who would like to help;
> I will give you credit on each walkthru, howto, command string, etc
> you are willing to help with however you want me to (name, alias,
> email, url link, etc).
> Help a complete newbie help other newbies! I want to bring more light
> to Plan9.
>
>



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Federico G. Benavento