From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: philo Message-ID: References: , <20040303185823.GA1129@bsd.my.domain> Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:15:13 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1304d632-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Greg Pavelcak" wrote in message news:20040303185823.GA1129@bsd.my.domain... > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:19:55PM +0000, philo wrote: > > I'm not a programmer...just an experimenter. > > > > Got it installed and running (locally) yesterday... > > > > what next? (I don't feel like spending $150 for the manual) > > > > Philo > > > Hello fellow newbie. > > Go into /sys/doc and start reading. Some of the Plan 9 docs are > pretty esoteric, but they still make a good read. > > Frequent the Plan 9 web page. I don't have the address, but if you > google for plan9 you'll get there. > > Once there, explore every link. Especially do frequent googling of > comp.os.plan9 as questions arise. > > I hope I'll soon be knowledgeable enough to answer questions beyond > pointing to docs, but there's a start. > > I think you'll find Plan 9 addictive. I am a long time FreeBSD user, > in particular vi (well vim) and several different window managers, > mostly icewm; but once I tried Plan 9, I kept finding myself > myseriously drawn back to it. Acme does that to you. And, even > though I'm not a programmer either, I just have a sense that it's a > more elegant system. > > Finally, you've obviously already found this list. I've found the > people here quite helpful. A little quirky, but helpful. One of the > things that drew me to FreeBSD in the first place was that when I, > an ordinary user, posted questions, I found I was getting answers > from people who are actually writing the code! That's true here too. > > Good luck. > > Greg Thanks for the reply...and yes.... I know where the web page is... but I will have to start reading the docs... I am a late comer to the world of computers but have been trying to make up for it by at least seeing what there is to all the OS's out there. I've got a whole shelf full of removable drives and have fooled around with Linux and FreeBSD...plus os/2 & ECS... but have only just within the past couple of days found out about Plan 9 so expect it will take me a while to figure out the first 0.1% of it all!