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authorArne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>2009-06-04 15:38:01 +0200
committerArne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>2009-06-04 15:38:01 +0200
commit2fabec9730d0853b25734d4b05044ad4d5111202 (patch)
tree7b5b854b3d87f0205bf58274cb044ba0c281d102 /community/weblogs/ArneBab
parent2436a2093ea8863456f66cbd0cf202c3fa86d1f2 (diff)
Updated the niches blog post a bit.#
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@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ monologue at the end... I really should put these ideas into my blog.)"*
Another example of features which would be easily possible with the Hurd:
+* transparent ftp (already possible!)
+ - settrans -c ftp: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /
+ - ls ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
+ - # -> list the files on teh FTP server.
+
* media-player translator:
- settrans play /hurd/mediaplayer_play
- cp song1.ogg song2.ogg play
@@ -246,8 +251,8 @@ Applications
A minor phase, which will surely be interleaved with the others: Making the ideas
tangible to turn them into ways how people can use the Hurd.
-"Hey, look, this is the Hurd. You can use it like this to do that which you can't do
-as well/easily/elegantly in any other way."
+*"Hey, look, this is the Hurd. You can use it like this to do that which you can't do
+as well/easily/elegantly in any other way."*
### Applications for private use
@@ -264,18 +269,18 @@ it's too hard.
From what I see, each direct cool application must be about as simple as
-$ qemu hurd-is-cool.img
-$ login root
-$ settrans cool /hurd/cool
+$ qemu hurd-is-cool.img
+$ login root
+$ settrans cool /hurd/cool
$ ls cool
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 isn't to teach people better usage of qemu,
-but to show them that the Hurd is cool, and only that.
+Especially no *"qemu --cd livecd --hda hurd.img ..."* - that one is great for
+people who already know qemu or want to learn it, but the goal here isn't to teach people
+better usage of qemu, but to show them that the Hurd is cool, and only that.
All that interesting advanced stuff just gets newcomers confused.