From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50802191637t4f135154j1650e90e2ff46020@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:37:51 -0300 From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next? In-Reply-To: <20080220000019.GA799@shodan.homeunix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080220000019.GA799@shodan.homeunix.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5b83b5d0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hola, people tend to forget, but Plan 9 does has a wiki, with answers to most of the questions these groundhog (credit: maht) day posts. read it via acme, or: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Recommended_readings/ have fun and welcome to Plan 9! On Feb 19, 2008 9:00 PM, Martin Neubauer wrote: > * Pietro Gagliardi (pietro10@mac.com) wrote: > > First off, finish learning to use rc, rio, and acme. You'll need both > > of them :-) > > For large values of two, two equals three, for small values of three. > > Seriously, it's probobly easiest to understand how Plan 9 works and why it > is the way it is by reading what you find in /sys/doc. Start with 9.ps and > work yourself through the rest. A few things aren't really necessary to > get started, but reading the titles and abstracts helps to sort things. The > wiki is nice and contains quite a few descriptions of getting things done > but provides little reasoning about design (notable exceptions are the > pages on the colour scheme and the mouse vs. keyboard debate - there's > really no need to carry this one back to the list.) > > Oh, and the man pages are great for reference. > > -- Federico G. Benavento