Using Plan 9

The Plan 9 environment takes some acclimating. Many of the commonly-found UNIX utilities have been replaced or removed (there's no vi and no emacs), and the user interface relies heavily on mouse usage. In fact, a three-button mouse is strongly preferred. This might be a little strange if you're a hardcore CLI person. It took me some time to get the hang of it.

I recommend going through the READMEs for Rio, the Plan 9 Window Manager, and Acme, the programmer's editor. I found the Plan 9 Newbie Guide (PDF) and the RIT Plan 9 Introduction to be very useful. There are also a few helpful youtube videos:

• Using Plan 9--a basic session
• Narrated Plan 9 Demo
• Acme Editor Demo
• Acme Mail Demo
• Plan 9 Acme Intro - Part 1 
• Plan 9 Acme Intro - Part 2
• Plan 9 Acme Intro - Part 3