Re: [9fans] Newbie

[Greg Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:19:55PM +0000, philo wrote:
> I'm not a programmer...just an experimenter.
> 
> Got it installed and running (locally) yesterday...
> 
> what next? (I don't feel like spending $150 for the manual)
> 
> Philo
> 
Hello fellow newbie.

Go into /sys/doc and start reading. Some of the Plan 9 docs are
pretty esoteric, but they still make a good read.

Frequent the Plan 9 web page. I don't have the address, but if you
google for plan9 you'll get there.

Once there, explore every link. Especially do frequent googling of
comp.os.plan9 as questions arise.

I hope I'll soon be knowledgeable enough to answer questions beyond
pointing to docs, but there's a start.

I think you'll find Plan 9 addictive. I am a long time FreeBSD user,
in particular vi (well vim) and several different window managers,
mostly icewm; but once I tried Plan 9, I kept finding myself
myseriously drawn back to it. Acme does that to you. And, even
though I'm not a programmer either, I just have a sense that it's a
more elegant system.

Finally, you've obviously already found this list. I've found the
people here quite helpful. A little quirky, but helpful. One of the
things that drew me to FreeBSD in the first place was that when I,
an ordinary user, posted questions, I found I was getting answers
from people who are actually writing the code! That's true here too.

Good luck.

Greg