From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <140e7ec30712200720p402723dfxc14b3bffa859fcbe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:20:37 +0900 From: sqweek To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 newbie...!!!!! In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1e7882d8-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Dec 20, 2007 7:39 PM, codewarrior85 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