Re: How to start with 9front

["Iruatã Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

Hello Juergen,

You should not bother too much about not understanding the system at
the first time. Read the papers just to get a rough idea about the
concepts and practice. Once you start using it, many things will start
to make sense, other won't, so you'll have to read parts of the papers
again.

A little piece of advice that is commonly given to newcomers: if you
try to understand Plan 9 (and 9front) based on the experience you
already have with other systems, you are likely to get frustrated. On
the other hand, if you can take the effort to learn something new, the
experience will pay off.

Good luck,
iru

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:36 AM, neo67 <i.am.neo67@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello iru,
>
> thanks for the links, I will try them out.
>
> Thanks
> Juergen
> aka nek67
>
> On 19 Jul., 15:56, Iruatã Souza <iru.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:03 AM, neo67 <i.am.ne...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Hiho People's Front of Judea, ;-)
>>
>> > I search for a "first steps" oder a little introdution into 9front.
>> > I have install the system into a vmware vm and it will boot.
>>
>> > No I'm standing here:
>> > bootargs is (tcp, local!device) [local!/dev/scd0/fscache]-
>>
>> > What are the commands & options? How start the GUI and so on.
>> > Is this the a prompt, a shell??? Or what?
>>
>> > Are you able to help me?
>>
>> > Thanks & Greetz
>> > neo67
>>
>> Since 9front is born from Plan 9, much of the documentation for Plan 9
>> applies to 9front.
>> After following Julius words to get to the rc shell, you can read the
>> first three papers in [1] to understand what is this system about, [2]
>> for the first steps in its usage, and [3] if you want to digg a little
>> deeper than [2].
>>
>> Good luck,
>> iru
>>
>> [1]http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/index.html
>> [2]http://www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf
>> [3]http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf