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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] FQA update
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 12:59:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZCneqB2gf93KdfXO@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bdf24d37-a940-4a93-85bd-5ab685ae9656@e.email>

On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 09:40:03AM +0000, ooga@e.email wrote:
> > and it is not worth rewriting the FQA to pretend otherwise.
> 
> What's the purpose of having/maintaining the FQA if not for newcomers ? A very short handbook with auth/fs installation info is more than enough for regular users of 9front/plan9. The FQA looks like a newcomer's guide/map/overview, and the chances that newcomers are starting with RPI might be higher than you think.

I didn't say the FQA is not for newcomers, I said it's not worth
rewriting the FQA to make the Raspberry Pi more prominent, because
newcomers will be better served, on average, by better computers.

In other words, we focus a lot on older Thinkpads and Intel wifi, 
because we know that this hardware works more frequently with fewer
mysterious problems.  This is part of the point of the sysinfo effort;
new users can see what hardware people are using.

Lots of newcomers start with Virtualbox, which is the Raspberry Pi of
virtualization tools, but that doesn't make Virtualbox worth focusing
on.


khm

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-02 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-17  5:37 Yury Chumak
2023-03-17 19:52 ` Tobias Heinicke
2023-03-18  3:37 ` sl
2023-03-29  3:32 ` sl
2023-03-29 11:09   ` Yury Chumak
2023-03-31 18:50     ` sl
2023-04-01 20:27       ` Kurt H Maier
2023-04-01 20:52         ` Steve Simon
2023-04-01 21:29           ` ori
2023-04-02  7:10           ` Kurt H Maier
2023-04-02  9:40             ` ooga
2023-04-02 11:29               ` Philip Silva
2023-04-02 14:49                 ` Stanley Lieber
2023-04-02 17:54                   ` Philip Silva
2023-04-02 18:03                     ` Philip Silva
2023-04-02 19:21                       ` hiro
2023-04-06 14:11                         ` cinap_lenrek
2023-04-06 14:19                   ` cinap_lenrek
2023-04-06 16:04                     ` Stanley Lieber
2023-04-02 19:59               ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2023-04-03 10:22         ` chris
2023-04-03 11:50           ` chris
2023-04-03 18:09             ` adventures in9
2023-04-03 19:13               ` Stanley Lieber
2023-04-03 21:44                 ` sirjofri

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