From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help!
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:09:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B56FB6C2-F886-4D5F-9C34-380B7653F499@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51656e510801111457r75050354gc48c8bfa80e9fe3@mail.gmail.com>
There isn't a book on Plan 9 as there are many of UNIX (I plan to
write one), but here are some places to start; you should at least do
the first one first.
- Run the Live CD and run the live part. You will see a guide to
using Plan 9's rio windowing system and acme text editor; read those
in order.
- The Wiki, at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/, is a wonderful
place to start. You will need to set up a new user once you install;
see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_a_new_user/
index.html for details. Just log on to user adm.
- Get a book on troff, which lets you write documents. http://
www.troff.org/ has some details on books, as well as a link to a free
one co-written by the founder of the O'Reilly publishing company;
available at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
- Read the Wiki page on Unix to Plan 9 command translation: http://
plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Unix_to_Plan_9_command_translation/
index.html It also has some details on converting shell semantics and
files
- .profile is now lib/profile
- Type the command line
page /sys/doc/rc.ps
hit Enter, and read the guide to rc, the replacement for /bin/sh
- Anything that John says (he beat me to it)
On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:57 PM, clinton wrote:
> I've installed plan9 a few times and found it to be a complete
> mind-bender; it was more of a leap for me than deserting win95 for
> slackware. I know I should Read The Fine Manuals ... but which are the
> best ones to read first, and where do I find them? I've been an unix
> enthusiast for some time (but perhaps not as long as some of you) and
> I've been completely FAT-free for more than ten years now, so I'm not
> scared of a steep learning curve. I've read the theoretical documents
> about plan9; are there some sort of practical ones for newcomers?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-11 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-11 22:57 clinton
2008-01-11 23:02 ` john
2008-01-22 17:01 ` Glenn Becker
2008-01-11 23:06 ` john
2008-01-11 23:09 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-29 9:04 [9fans] help! Lei Ding
2001-08-29 13:12 ` Nicholas Waples
2001-08-30 18:59 ` geerten kuiper
2001-04-22 23:12 [9fans] HELP! forsyth
2001-04-22 14:18 Re[2]: [9fans] X on Plan 9 David Lukes
2001-04-22 22:53 ` [9fans] HELP! Dave Iafrate - CSCI/F1997
2001-04-02 13:16 [9fans] Help! presotto
2001-04-02 8:50 bawei
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