Re: [9fans] Newbie

[a@9srv.net]

// i have worked a little bit with linux...
// but this looks like a whole new world to me

well, that's a good start then! it *is* a whole new world. there's an
initial learning cliff that can be rough, but i certainly think it's
worth it.

the system really starts getting more interesting when you can get on
a network, as you no doubt suspect. ftpfs is the canonical example of
the power of namespaces and user-level file systems, but it's become
somewhat ho-hum (from a user's point of view) since unix and win32
have thing that are (functionally) very similar. instead, maybe take
a look at /n/sources (`cat /bin/9fs` to see what's going on) and the
dumps as a nice alternative to CVS for live code distribution.

look at running rio inside a rio window, and compare with xnest. take
a walk around /rc/bin and cat some things - that can be very
educational.

read some of the papers in /sys/doc. all are good in their way, but
i've found 9, acme, auth, names, net, plumb, port, and utf to be
particularly informative while still being accessable to new users.

the big things that hooked me on the system, coming from the unix
world, were dumps and /lib/ndb. then rc and cpu.
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