From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60607240629n30e55cb8yed6e438842bebf5e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:29:39 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com In-Reply-To: <20060724074136.857521fb.20h@r-36.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <53f976bd0607231349m61fd0d1dw7fe71747699effd2@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60607231640o5f855965o91b3afd8fcdf3777@mail.gmail.com> <20060724074136.857521fb.20h@r-36.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8a92ed20-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/23/06, Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net> wrote: > Good morning. > > Am Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:40:40 -0700 schrieb "David Leimbach" > : > > > I just get REALLY tired, as I'm sure many people do, when you go to > > read something reviewing an OS that you know about, just to see what > > the reactions are going to be, and find it full of errors. > > > [...] (I'm not an expert btw) [...] > > > A lot of what's wrong with the image of Plan 9 is that people "just > > don't get it". > > Where is your article? > I keep my learning experiences over @ http://mordor.tip9ug.jp/who/leimy I found all the introductory setup material I needed on our wiki, and from being involved and asking questions either on IRC (some of which were met with both appropriate and seemingly inappropriate RTFMs at the time) or on 9fans. I doubt I could do a better job than some of the papers that already exist by Ron Minnich or Charles Forsyth on why Plan 9 is relevant. However as I learned things that weren't obvious I've always been willing to share that information. Dave > Sincerely, > > Christoph >