On Jan 13, 2011 9:32 AM, "Duke Normandin" <dukeofperl@ml1.net> 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.