GOAL

Basic idea is to create a series of short (~10 minutes) well-edited tutorial introductions to Plan 9 as well as short talks on underlying philosophy and design principles. The idea is to follow the example of the (better) Google Code YouTube videos and provide a path for folks to learn a bit more about Plan 9. The idea is to mix lecture, screen videos, and discussion to hopefully encourage more of an interactive experience.

CONCEPTS

• Overview - General overview of the system and concepts
• File Servers - The use of synthetic file servers in Plan 9
• Namespace - The use of Namespaces in Plan 9
• Networks - The Organization of Networks in Plan 9

GETTING STARTED

• Installation - installing and starting Plan 9
• Window Manager
• Basic Enviornment
• SAM
• ACME
• Configuring a stand-alone system
• Configuring a stand-alone cpu server

USING PLAN 9

• RC shell
• Plumbing
• Network operations
• Staying up to date
• Setting up and using Venti
• Authentication

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING

• Hello World
• mkfiles
• Plan 9 C Compiler
• Debugging with Acid
• Multithreaded
• Graphics
• Contributing code back
• Using Patch

PROGRAMING CONCEPTS

• Constructing services as file systems

FILE SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING

• Overview
• Flat Synthetic File Servers
• Hierarchical Synthetic File Servers
• Dynamic Synethetic File Servers (ramfs)
• Clone File Servers

KERNEL PROGRAMMING

• Overview of kernel source tree and build environment
• Writing a simple character device driver
• Writing a network driver
• Writing a graphics driver

OTHER SYSTEMS

• Drawterm
• Plan 9 Ports
• 9VX
• Inferno (probably needs its own similar set of topics)