From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:30:54 -0700 From: Duke Normandin To: Plan9 <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] Noob says Hi .. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 95646954-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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)? Should I be installing Lucent's Plan9 or a more recent derivative, if any? Is there software available for this OS? Or do I have to write my own? What is the primary development language for Plan9? C? What languages have been ported to Plan9? Where are the best docs? TIA... -- Duke Normandin Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada