> -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Walther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [9fans] How to change UserID/Group to edit files in /lib/ndb? > > Hi Fans, > > thank you for all your answers. I did as Russ suggested and now > everything works fine. My next task will be to go through all the > documents found in the wiki, but I have to admit that this is a rather > painfull task for a newbie. I'm to Unix and as such I'm used to read > manpages and other sources of information. But it's sometimes > difficult to locate the piece of information needed to perform a > certain task, especially if one doesn't know how to perform a certain > task. > I read some of the papers found on Plan 9s website, but it's just > theory as long as one doesn't really work with/on a system. > > Because of this, my idea would be to extend the information in the > Wiki to some sort of "First steps with Plan 9" document.
What about calling it "Plan9 for Unix users"? I am under the impression 90% of Plan9 beginners (including myself, btw ;-)) are Unix-users. > This is not > only about basic information but about "best practices", too. There > are several ways of performing a certain task most of the time, but it > needs some experience to figure out which way is the best. When this > experience is provided by long term Plan 9 users, this can give > newbies an impression how to work with it. > Amen. The problem is not to find a problem, but to find a solution ;-) I know some 9fans from IRC (freenode), among those some persons that succeeded in understanding Plan9 (enough to work with it), are unix-users and want to write Documentation of this purpose - of course, wanting to work, finding time to work and doing the work are three different things (again, including myself)
