Re: [9fans] Plan9 for a newbie

["Joel Franusic" <joel@sargo.com>]

Writing a "hello world" resulted in several "oh wow" moments for me...

On 3/8/07, Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like to show this rc script to newbies
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fgb/rc/telnet
> yes, Plan 9 is this powerful
>
> Federico G. Benavento
>
> ---
> /bin/fortune:
> When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
> To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:40:10 -0700
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 for a newbie
> who needs command history?
>
> grep something /dev/text
>
> Also, I saw something in X11 lately. It was a desktop with a bunch of
> xterms. When you resized one xterm, all the others resized so they all
> remained tiled.
>
> Plan 9 has had this for many years. Startup acme. Put win in the top
> tagline. middle-click 6 or 7 tiimes. Not only do you get the same
> thing, but you can trivially edit and do things in each window.
>
> Try acme mail. Not perfect, but man it's faster than thunderbird. And
> look at how it handles attachments. Very cool.
>
> Start up a rio term window. Note that it is NOT a teletype attached to
> a window, as in X11. After all, xterms have a baud rate. Just mouse
> up, and note you can edit stuff.
>
> Suppose you have a bunch of junk in a window, and you don't want to
> see it, but you want the rest. On Unix, you type 'clear' and start
> again. In the rio term window, just select a bunch of text, and delete
> it.
>
> Learn chords, like left-button-select, then middle. Then left, and
> right. Very handy.
>
> Run rio in a term window.
>
> 9fs sources. cd /n/sources. Have fun.
>
> Run abaco. Note that you can tile web pages horizontally and
> vertically. And you can see all the URLs ...
>
> See how much code it takes to write a web browser in plan 9 -- look at
> abaco source.
>
> note there is no 'ftp' command. Who the heck needs ftp? Just run ftpfs. Done.
>
> tarfs.
>
> There's just so much stuff there. Check out acid -- see how it works.
> See how it's built. Then wonder "why isn't every debugger built this
> way".
>
> man plumber.
>
> The list is pretty endless. It just shows that with the right starting
> point, you can do so much better than linux or x11 or all the stuff we
> take for granted. I get really angry sometimes, using Linux. In fact I
> just broke the U key on this laptop 2 days ago -- typed just a little
> too hard and off it went. Now there's just a funny little blue thing
> where U used to be.
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>