[9fans] A few questions, thanks!

[9fans] A few questions, thanks!

[Kyrre Nygård]

Hello!

My name is Kyrre Nygård and I'm a student at the 
University of Bergen, Norway, currently doing 
this school research project trying to document 
the next generation of operating systems that is 
starting to emerge across the world. Plan9 is to 
me one of the most interesting projects, however 
I was surprised not to find a group of developers 
on the Freenode or OFTC IRC networks. Luckily I 
found this mailinglist, so I'll just go ahead and ask.

        I'm not sure how important they may be to 
you, but I would be very interested in looking at 
the kernel output (e.g. dmesg in BSD) just to see 
what I might expect. And also, if possible, a 
listing of the Plan9 hierarchy? Preferably using 
this file listing script: 
http://paste.husk.org/6847. Anyway I hope it 
differs from the utterly complex Filesystem 
Hierarchy Standard, which may seem logical to 
brain washed software developers, but to normal people pure madness.

        That's it for now I guess, thank you so much for your time.

All the best,
Kyrre

Re: [9fans] A few questions, thanks!

[John Floren]

On 10/1/06, Kyrre Nygård <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My name is Kyrre Nygård and I'm a student at the
> University of Bergen, Norway, currently doing
> this school research project trying to document
> the next generation of operating systems that is
> starting to emerge across the world. Plan9 is to
> me one of the most interesting projects, however
> I was surprised not to find a group of developers
> on the Freenode or OFTC IRC networks. Luckily I
> found this mailinglist, so I'll just go ahead and ask.
>
>         I'm not sure how important they may be to
> you, but I would be very interested in looking at
> the kernel output (e.g. dmesg in BSD) just to see
> what I might expect. And also, if possible, a
> listing of the Plan9 hierarchy? Preferably using
> this file listing script:
> http://paste.husk.org/6847. Anyway I hope it
> differs from the utterly complex Filesystem
> Hierarchy Standard, which may seem logical to
> brain washed software developers, but to normal people pure madness.
>
>         That's it for now I guess, thank you so much for your time.
>
> All the best,
> Kyrre
>
>

Well, you apparently managed to find Freenode/#plan9 eventually,
because I just talked to you this morning (or to somebody asking the
EXACT same thing). Anyway, if you're in Norway, I suggest getting an
account at http://9grid.de/. The accounts are free and you should be
able to get decent connections from Norway (I hope). You'll get an
account on a fully-configured Plan 9 machine, and you can explore to
your heart's content.


John Floren
-- 
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI

[9fans] A few questions, thanks!

[Kyrre Nygård]

        Small correction!

        My bad, my IRC client was a bit twisted, turns at you guys do 
have a presence on Freenode. Nevermind my saying, thanks.

All the best,
Kyrre

Re: [9fans] A few questions, thanks!

["Nils O. Selåsdal"]

Kyrre Nygård wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> My name is Kyrre Nygård and I'm a student at the University of Bergen, 
> Norway, currently doing this school research project trying to document 
> the next generation of operating systems that is starting to emerge 
> across the world. Plan9 is to me one of the most interesting projects, 
> however I was surprised not to find a group of developers on the 
> Freenode or OFTC IRC networks. Luckily I found this mailinglist, so I'll 
> just go ahead and ask.
> 
>        I'm not sure how important they may be to you, but I would be 
> very interested in looking at the kernel output (e.g. dmesg in BSD) just 
> to see what I might expect. And also, if possible, a listing of the 
> Plan9 hierarchy? Preferably using this file listing script: 
> http://paste.husk.org/6847. Anyway I hope it differs from the utterly 
> complex Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which may seem logical to brain 
> washed software developers, but to normal people pure madness.

namespace(4) tries to explain the various directories in Plan 9.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/namespace

Install or run the livecd should let you play around, read docs,
etc. so you can answer your question yourself.