From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stalker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <734ef6d7-3357-4194-8650-48b4c3ad0007@o5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> References: <734ef6d7-3357-4194-8650-48b4c3ad0007@o5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1232.1267010767.1@kryten.local> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:26:39 +0000 Message-ID: <201002241126.aa65935@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site? Topicbox-Message-UUID: da52b6ca-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 When I was learning FreeBSD I found this site helpful: http://www.freebsddiary.org/ I think the thing that really makes the FreeBSD Diary work is a lack of grand ambitions. The guy who maintains it doesn't try to cover everything, and generally doesn't try to explain things he doesn't understand. He doesn't normally try to update old entries, and often goes months without doing anything. But he has been doing this for 12 years now, and has accumulated a good collection of articles. As far as I can tell, whenever he needs to do something moderately complicated which is not well documented, he makes notes and then describes how he did things and posts it. It would be nice to have something like that for plan9. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282