Re: [9front] Enabling a service

[Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>]

On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 02:11:50PM -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> When a newbie starts with one machine and then wants to try starting 
> up network services shortly afterwards, it should be more directly 
> possible, IMO

Strong disagree.  The last thing we need is seventy thousand
poorly-configured 9front machines running half-assed network services.

> Unless you are actually in a lab environment with shared machines,
> nobody expects a diskless terminal anymore; 

Also not sure this is a valid assumption.  About half the plan 9 users I
know use diskless terminals.

Basically there's more to setting up a plan 9 network than switching a
machine to accept remote cpu connections.  If someone isn't willing to
learn how all the pieces work, I do not think they would benefit from
additional footguns.  If you don't want a distributed operating system,
and you don't want to learn how plan 9 works, there are a lot of other
choices for operating systems out there, and using one of those to set
up a dimly-understood imminent botnet drone would have far less annoying
consequences for this mailing list.

People can do whatever they want with their computers, but I don't think
there's a specific onus on 9front to make bad ideas easier to execute.

khm