# 9-101: An introduction to Plan 9

* Describe VNC and drawterm

  * New users can connect using either VNC or

  * New users can download and open drawterm

* Welcome, Explorer, to Plan 9

  * Show how to open a window in rio

  * Show how to use hold, to turn command line into a text editor

  * Learn how to list files

  * Show how to scroll, edit commands, execute commands

  * Show basic commands for navigating filesystem

  * Cat a text file describing the advanced features of Plan 9

* Not Your Grandfather's Unix

  * Read description of how 9 obsoletes UNIX

    * Describe old legacy components that have disappeared

    * Describe new replacement features

    * Emphasize user independence and knowledge of the system

  * Describe filesystem hierarchy and do some basic navigation

  * Introduce text editor acme

  * Introduce text editor sam

  * Force users to go through basic civics courses like in unix101 using acme and sam

    * Add challenges that will force him to use Edit commands and 9 utilities to read through the text; make it a scavenger hunt like unix101

* Everything is a file

  * Introduce the concepts of unix pipes and redirection operators -- these will be used to finish challenges to advance to the next level

  * Introduce sshfs, NFS, SMB

    * For each protocol, users must mount the filesystem and perform some actions to find clues for the next level.

    * During these lessons, explain the protocols, concepts, and also add civics lessons

  * Introduce to gitfs, chatfs, mailfs, 

    * Send mail with upas ( start with native mail, end with POP3 and IMAP)

    * Commit to a git repo with gitfs

    * Send a chat message with chatfs

* What's in a name?

  * Introduce per process namespaces

  * Give a demo where a process cannot access home folder

* Working with files

* Networking: No man is an island

  * Show how to create connections with /net

  * Discuss how Berkeley sockets have been obsoleted

  * Discuss how 9p replaces ssh

  * vncs/vncv, RDP?

  * ssh, telnet

* Halt, who goes there?

  * Introduction to Auth

  * Factotum

  * NDB -- database and network

* Unix, Dinosaurs, and other Legacy Software

* Virtualization with VMX

  * Set up Linux, BSD inside a virtual machine

  * linuxemu

* rc scripting

  * end with basic usage of window

* Ports

  * How to install 3rd party software

  * Porting from unix to 9

* Installing 9

  * File systems

    * RAMFS, 9p

    * cwfs and hjfs

  * File servers

    * wsys/ctl ?

* CPU server

  * Explain drawterm, rcpu, and service=cpu

* Beyond Plan 9

  * Inferno

  * 9front

  * 9legacy