One thing I hear a lot: installing Plan 9 is headache for many people, particularly trying to trace down working docs to produce working code: "... it's just a maze full of dead ends."
It's like building a sofa from several different IKEA flatpacks without instructions :-) I know lots of you have done lots of work to make this better, but we're not there. t's easy for many of us, at this point, because we have the muscle memory. For anyone new to this, it's just baffling: their muscle memory is for linux. I think one thing we could put up at the p9f.org site is a set of simple instructions that include: - using the WASM version in your browser but I'd like to see this using Lola, not rio. I've lost more people when I show them rio ... whether or not it's great, it's too different for many people. The lessons rio contain are too much for many people taking a first look. - setting up with qemu. I'd most prefer to have a git repo which contains both an ISO and source to drawterm which *builds*. I continue to get reports of build problems with drawterm. If there is a devdraw dependency, put that in the repo too. I mention github because it's linux friendly and I can set up CI to ensure that whatever people are pulling, it seems to work. - have some way to show people they can "cpu" into the qemu instance, and show off the power of that model. - There are too many fiddly bits to get right to bring up cpu and other services. I The challenge: anybody want to take on any of these things? I may try doing the github repo, since most complaints I get revolve around qemu and linux usage. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbe8e5fda6ae62f5c-M2f7d863b618f244ef17c715c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
