From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Pavelcak To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie Message-ID: <20040303185823.GA1129@bsd.my.domain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:58:23 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10d8c4ae-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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