Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:46:14PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch 29 Oktober 2008 12:16:58 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > I mentioned the desktop thing as one possible showcase. The problem > > here is that it is a task for many years... Would be nice to have > > some hurdish applications for showing around, in a closer timeframe. > > And I think we're close to a general issue here: > > We need stuff which gets people to say "hey that's cool!" > > And it must be readily available. Yeah, that's what I have been trying to say, talking about use cases etc. > One main focus in this example is: No command line parameters but the > ones we really need. No "-a", if the example is also cool without it. > No "--console" if it works otherwise. > > Especially no "qemu --cd livecd --hda hurd.img ..." - that one is > great for specialists, but the goal here is not to teach people better > usage of qemu, but to show them that the Hurd is cool, and only that. Well, I wouldn't really consider that an issue. qemu is totally unrelated to what we actually trying to show, and I don't think it's a problem if it needs a complicated command line, as long as it is presented in a form that can be directly copied, without understanding that part -- without needing to look up qemu usage first. In my experience users are actually quite used to copying arcane command lines that they do not fully understand... > PS: If you think that I say "cool" a bit too often, then just pass me > an alternative word ;-) cold? chilly? freezing? ;-) -antrik-
