From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:23:55 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <241ab563d898a93e2f225861c12da009@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive? Topicbox-Message-UUID: c8cb1084-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > learning about it. If I could ask you another couple of questions. I > do use linux. I've started learning C programming. I have been using > linux as the platform to learn on. I was thinking of changing over to > plan 9 for this as well. Would you recommend doing this? I'm not heck, ya! learning c is easier when the system doesn't add a layer of difficulty. i've found it to be a great help to be able to read the header files, and dive into the libraries without finding a maze of twisty passages. learning the standard way of doing things is a bit of trivia that can be done later. > this is possible with plan 9? Do you run plan 9 in a virtual machine > or on native hardware? native. sadly, i have not made much time for virtual machines. i currently run amd64, mips (routerboard), arm (openrd and rpi). - erik