Re: [9fans] Installed Plan 9, now what?

[mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca]

> With the
> availability of dumps (or RCS on Lunix), there's little reason to be
> afraid of editing files.

I've gotten used to making pulls every morning (still done by hand,
I'm not that important to have it in a cron job yet).  I examine the
output looking for stuff that is "locally modified", then I
carelessly^Wcarefully accept it with -s and run "yesterday -c" on
whatever I don't like...  That's still easier than running 'up2date'
on a RedHat machine or 'cvsup' on a *BSD box.

By the way, my argument against the multi-level indirection is that
it's in such important places (fossil, replica, ndb) that explaining
it becomes hard.  How many times has 'why is pull not working?' been
answered on this list?  How many of those answers involved something
completely non-obvious to a new Plan 9 user?

Plan 9, as recently reiterated, is supposed to be about simplifying
administration as much as it is about offering a unified distributed
environment.

my $0.02(CAD): andrey