From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920807010740l3c836249u4da35a0ac63c1559@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:40:40 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <486A23B3.5050909@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <485fd60af09857cd96375304c1183cd3@coraid.com> <5d375e920806301825l65cb8122v30022d5f3726b128@mail.gmail.com> <486A23B3.5050909@coraid.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 newbie guide Topicbox-Message-UUID: d3161c32-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Good point and agreed. uriel On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Brantley Coile 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 >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> > >