Tom Says: Code something crazy every day you feel like it!
Plan 9 is an olde operating system from Bell Labs. It's not a type of UNIX or Linux; it's meant to be a successor. It's diff'rent, and that's what makes it cute.
I have been running a Plan 9 server for a while now. It lives in a VMWare instance on my former primary laptop. It doesn't often get much action, although I am tending toward it these days for C hacking and geeky enjoyment. I can't be as productive in the acme editor as I can be in vim yet though.
I registered for an account on the official Bell Labs repository for unofficial Plan 9 contributions. See me in the contrib index under "alltom." I haven't released anything worth looking at yet, though.
I am currently looking for ways to put a Plan 9 server on the Internet, since dropping a server at school or home is not an option. I may be able to do this in the VMWare instance that is hosting my current Ubuntu VPS, but I need a plan for AllTom before I can begin that project. Which is where sitefs comes in...
Does this sound like you?
I've installed plan9 a few times and found it to be a complete mind-bender …. 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 read the theoretical documents about plan9; are there some sort of practical ones for newcomers?
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Posted Apr 29, 2007, in the late, late night. Updated updated Jan 11, 2008, in the night: Added stuff for noobs.