From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 newbie guide
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920807010740l3c836249u4da35a0ac63c1559@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486A23B3.5050909@coraid.com>
Good point and agreed.
uriel
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> wrote:
> Michael is a very smart man with a great sense of language, sophisticated
> knowledge of computer science, but he was totally ignorant of Plan 9. That
> fact allowed him to record what he was learning. As time went by he was
> quickly loosing a sense of what he needed to know, becoming instead more
> knowledgeable of Plan 9. You and I can't expand his paper. We know too
> much. We should let Michael own the paper.
>
> Uriel wrote:
>>
>> There have been similar efforts in the past, but this one is *really*
>> nice. Concise, clear and covers basic stuff but fast enough.
>>
>> Do you have the troff source available? That would make it easier for
>> people to expand it further. Also I would be happy to host an html
>> version at http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ if that is OK with you.
>>
>> Thanks, peace and best wishes
>>
>> uriel
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:46 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> this guide was writen at coraid by michael covington.
>>> the document proclaims itself to be:
>>>
>>> This is a quick-start guide to the user interface of the
>>> Plan 9 operating system based on my own experiences getting
>>> started at Coraid.
>>> [...]
>>> This is not a technical guide to Plan 9. This is only a "guide
>>> for the perplexed" for those who are using Plan 9 for the first
>>> time.
>>>
>>> a temporary home for this document is here:
>>>
>>> http://www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf
>>>
>>> - erik
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-30 21:46 erik quanstrom
2008-07-01 1:25 ` Uriel
2008-07-01 12:31 ` Brantley Coile
2008-07-01 14:40 ` Uriel [this message]
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