On Jan 13, 2011 9:32 AM, "Duke Normandin" wrote: > > Hello 9fans ... > > I'm _totally_ new to Plan9! Two days ago I had never heard of > it. Yesterday I DLed the LiveCD - now I want to know more. > > The closest I've come to such an OS as Plan9, is the Native Oberon > OS. I have a partition which I can overwrite. Does the LiveCD > installation process allow me to abort the process if I see that > things are not proceeding smoothly (like I need to gather some > hardware info, etc)? > You can, just reboot with ^t rr. ;) > Should I be installing Lucent's Plan9 or a more recent derivative, if > any? > There's a iso by erik quanstrom called 9atom. It has some extra hardware support. Just google 9atom > Is there software available for this OS? Or do I have to write my own? > There's plenty of software. Most of it is in contrib. > What is the primary development language for Plan9? C? What languages > have been ported to Plan9? Ansi c with some changes. > > Where are the best docs? TIA... See /sys/doc and the wiki. Also, you may want to google 9.intro.pdf.