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From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 newbie...!!!!!
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:20:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30712200720p402723dfxc14b3bffa859fcbe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba816fee-cfde-42e7-a034-19dcc051bff1@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

On Dec 20, 2007 7:39 PM, codewarrior85 <pcrkishan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to use Minix 3 or Plan 9 in my old laptop ( I dont wanna
> try Linux ) & preferably next choice will be freeBSD.Is it possible to
> install & use Plan 9 with Minix 3 in dual mode ???

 yes you can dual boot plan 9 just like any other OS and with a
dedicated testing machine youve got nothing to worry about so what if
you do something wrong in the install just nuke it and do it right
next time

>  Also is there a good scope for programming environment in Plan 9 ?? I
> would be programming in C....Are there pre built compilers for C in
> Plan 9 that come with jus like Linux ?????

 yes a vast majority of the code youll come across in plan 9 is in c
just dont expect to find gcc the plan 9 compilers are much nicer
anyway
 sorry about the messy writing someone filled the punctuation quota
for the thread already so i only have one hyphen left which i need for
my sig
-sqweek


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20 10:39 codewarrior85
2007-12-20 11:27 ` Juan M. Mendez
2007-12-20 14:00 ` [9fans] " codewarrior85
2007-12-20 15:53   ` john
2007-12-20 16:52   ` codewarrior85
2007-12-20 15:20 ` sqweek [this message]
2007-12-20 15:29   ` [9fans] " roger peppe
2007-12-20 13:38 James.Deagle

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