Re: [9front] fqa: request for requests

[qwx <qwx@sciops.net>]

On 1/15/21, William Gunnells <thinktankworkspaces@gmail.com> wrote:
> The satire wasn't so bad. But you can't please everyone. Maybe an
> additional section for dummies like myself. Like being more productive
> inside plan9. I remember reading on some plan9 website about goals of
> accomplishing certain things such as CPU/Auth, Mail, users, to
> eventual decentralize and or grid. Maybe more on Plan9 as a Desktop. I
> spend a lot of time ssh to a linux to do something and not enough time
> IN plan9. I guess it's hard to make the jump and this would be beyond
> scope of FQA but would be helpful nonetheless. It's asking too much.
> Perhaps I just want more youtube video's of plan9 users actually using
> it and being productive beyond how to use install, Acme or draw. More
> on forgetting you are in the wrong namespace, screwing up credentials,
> constant issues with TLS problems or expire, or your forgot mount use
> something. Or if you are cpu into another system copy to this
> directory to grab the data and maybe compile locally.

More and better documentation is an ongoing effort and such documents
are wanted and have been discussed before.  It requires people
contributing more and better documentation.  Perhaps you would care to
contribute?

Besides the FQA, we now also have docs[1], and mycroftiv's grid[2] has
at least a dozen of people using 9front as a daily driver and/or writing
new programs for it, willing to help newcomers.

As an aside, I've sometimes wished for details on many of the references
and photos in 9front propaganda.  Perhaps those could remove some
ambiguities?

qwx

[1] http://docs.9front.org
[2] http://wiki.9gridchan.org, currently down for a short while